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CSD_41_ZZ507 Christian L. and Erin D.

=__Initial Research:__=

=Good Consumer: =
 * Think about the brands and goods that are "must-haves" for you, your friends, and your family.
 * Where do you tend to shop or dine out?
 * What are some companies that strike you as being particularly impressive?
 * Look at the stuff you, your friends, and your family own - it might not be unreasonable to invest in some of these companies!

There are several companies in the market that produce goods and services that are needed for everyday life. Christian and I were interested in this topic because it's easy to relate to our lives. We think the market will be fairly stable because products like food and clothing are needed, despite the current financial crisis.
 * Initial Philosophy:**

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 * Initial Research:**


 * **Company Name** || **Stock Symbol (make it a hyperlink to research page)** || **Price per share when researched.** || **Briefly, why are you attracted to this stock?** || **Roughly, How many thousands of dollars to Invest? (Enter number)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wal-Mart || [|WMT] - NYSE || 55.97 || * Wal-Mart is inexpensive
 * Consistent throughout the years
 * Used by families || $20,000 ||
 * Target || [|TGT] - NYSE || 42.15 || * Affordable
 * Variety of products
 * High quality || $15,000 ||
 * Safeway || [|SWY] - NYSE || 24.00 || * Owns Vons || $10,000 ||
 * Netflix || [|NFLX] - Nasdaq || 25.25 || * Alternative to movie theaters
 * Compares well to Blockbuster || $10,000 ||
 * McDonalds || [|MCD] - NYSE || 56.46 || * Affordable
 * High reputation
 * Continuously growing || $15,000 ||
 * Apple || [|AAPL] - Nasdaq || 104.62 || * Well known
 * Leader of technology || $20,000 ||
 * When researching your stocks, look at the following: 5-year performance, stock performance against comparable companies, Dividend Information.
 * Identify which stocks you'd like to invest in. (You don't have to use all the stocks you researched!) For each stock, please give a 2-3 sentence justification, based on some sort of performance evidence, your own thoughts, or other information that could make this a good company.

=__Once Stocks Are Purchased:__=

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3. Be sure to **physically print out** the confirmation page showing what stocks you purchased!

3. For each of the companies that you choose to invest in, please give me the following://

1. McDonald's 2. MCD 3. NYSE 4. 5. Oak Brook, IL 6. http://www.thestreet.com/story/10448628/1/mcdonalds-thrives-as-consumers-get-cheap.html?puc=googlefi&cm_ven=GOOGLEFI&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

1. Netflix 2. NFLX 3. Nasdaq 4. 5. Los Gatos, CA 6. http://www.marketintelligencecenter.com/articles/701035

1. Target 2. TGT 3. NYSE 4. 5. Minneapolis, Minnesota 6.

1. Wal-Mart 2. WMT 3. NYSE 4. 5. Bentonville, Arkansas 6.

1. Yum! Brands 2. YUM 3. NYSE 4. 5. Louisville, Kentucky 6.
 * 1) Name of Company
 * 2) Stock Symbol
 * 3) Exchange where Stock Trades
 * 4) Brief summary of what the company does
 * 5) Location of Corporate Headquarters
 * 6) Add hyperlinks as appropriate to a news article that has some impact/implication on your company's stock performance.

4. Revisit your investment strategy and portfolio - once Mid-October, and once Mid-November. Report the following: > Because American consumers go to Wal-Mart, Target because of their relatively low prices, these companies have been able to whether out economic crisis.
 * 1) How are the stocks doing? While comparing all of the different stocks, I used that information to come to the conclusion that they all have been actually relatively good in a sense. They are not drastically falling in numbers. Also when compared to other common companies, our companies strived pretty well above them.
 * 2) Any particular good or bad ones? Wal-Mart was doing horrible when comparing it to Targets chart.
 * 3) How are bigger economic / current events issues impacting your stock? Obviously, Black Friday had a really big impact on the stocks.

=__**End of Project:**__=
 * 1) Complete your spreadsheet. Calculate the "Final Overall Gain/Loss"
 * 2) Make a pie chart of your holdings, based on $ invested in each stock.
 * 3) We still believe in our initial investment philosophy. Our stocks fluctuated throughout the game but it actually held steady. I believe that it worked out swell. I would have invested in more stocks in Wal-Mart because they were talked about being stable and a good purchase and also invested some more stocks in McDonalds. Maybe if we had invested all of our cash into one of those companys, then our placement in the Stock Market Game would have sky-rocketed upward.
 * 4) Please print/link and thoroughly discuss current events article for two of your companies.
 * 5) Project Reflection: What did you learn? We learned how risky it is to invest in the stock market, but it can be well worth the investment. What did you have troubles with? Making the decisions about buying stock. Research of stocks and companies were an important because we were investing $90,000.Anything that I can do as a teacher to make this project more helpful for you? (1 paragraph) Overall your directions were clear and the wiki helped sufficiently. Coming from Erin she says she would like it if you would have given us more time to research stocks.
 * 1) Please print/link and thoroughly discuss current events article for two of your companies.
 * 2) Project Reflection: What did you learn? We learned how risky it is to invest in the stock market, but it can be well worth the investment. What did you have troubles with? Making the decisions about buying stock. Research of stocks and companies were an important because we were investing $90,000.Anything that I can do as a teacher to make this project more helpful for you? (1 paragraph) Overall your directions were clear and the wiki helped sufficiently. Coming from Erin she says she would like it if you would have given us more time to research stocks.