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Dumb Luck
 * **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)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * McDonald's Corp || [|MCD] || 52.83 || We like McDonald's and a lot of people like to go their to eat. It's fast and easy. || 15,900 ||
 * Lorillard || [|LO] || 57.33 || It seemed like a pretty good company to invest in. || 17,200 ||
 * Apple INC. || [|AAPL] || 101.37 || We both have a lot of Apple items. Apple is also pretty popular. || 20,300 ||
 * General Mills Inc. || [|GIS] || 65.65 || This one was completely random. || 19,700 ||
 * Costco Wholesale Corp. || [|COST] || 55.31 || A lot of people like to buy in bulk so we thought this would be a good company || 16,600 ||
 * "I honestly have no clue, and hey, it's not my $100,000!"
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//We chose dumb luck because then we can just pick a bunch of different companies that we like or that just seem good. If they are doing well at the time we can choose them and we don't have to chose within a certain category.//
 * Initial Philosophy:**

1. McDonald's Corp. 2. MCD 3. NYSE 4. McDonald's Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, franchises and operates McDonald�s restaurants worldwide. Its restaurants offer various food items, and soft drinks and other beverages. The company also has a minority ownership interest in the U.K.-based Pret A Manger. 5. Mcdonalds Plaza 2111 McDonald's Drive Oak Brook, IL 60523 6. [|McDonald's Corp.]

1. Lorillard 2. LO 3. NYSE 4. Lorillard manufactures and sells cigarettes. The company offers 44 different product offerings under the Newport, Kent, True, Maverick, Old Gold, and Max brands. It sells its products primarily to wholesale distributors, who in turn service the retail outlets, chain store organizations, and government agencies, including the U.S. Armed Forces 5. **Lorillard, Inc.** 714 Green Valley Road Greensboro, NC 27408-7018 6. [|Lorillard]

1. Apple INC. 2. AAPL 3. NasdaqGS 4.Apple, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, as well as related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions worldwide. 5. **Apple Inc.** 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 6. [|Apple INC.]

1. General Mills 2. GIS 3. NYSE 4. General Mills, Inc. manufactures and markets branded and packaged consumer foods worldwide. The company also supplies branded and unbranded food products to the foodservice and commercial baking industries. 5. **General Mills Inc.** One General Mills Boulevard Minneapolis, MN 55426 6. [|General Mills]

1. Costco Wholesale Corp. 2. COST 3. NasdaqGS 4. Costco Wholesale Corporation operates membership warehouses that offer a selection of branded and private label products in a range of merchandise categories in no-frills, self-service warehouse facilities. The company's product categories include candy, snack foods, tobacco, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, and cleaning and institutional supplies; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, office supplies, garden and patio, sporting goods, furniture, and automotive supplies; dry and institutionally packaged foods; apparel, domestics, jewelry, housewares, media, home furnishings, cameras, and small appliances; meat, bakery, deli, and produce; and gas stations, pharmacy, food court, optical, one-hour photo, hearing aid, and travel. 5. **Costco Wholesale Corp.** 999 Lake Drive Issaquah, WA 98027 6. [|Costco]

Mid-October 1. All our stocks are doing okay right now. They are all still around the same price but we lost a little money. 2. There are no particular bad or good ones at this point. 3. The economy is not doing so well right now so that is a slightly negative impact on our stocks although we have not lost a lot of money yet. Mid-November 1. Our stocks are still doing okay. We have lost some more money but not a lot and since last month they have gone up and down a lot. 2. Our Apple stock would probably be the stock that is doing the worst. 3. The economy is still not good right now and that is having a bad impact on our stocks.

Article one http://seekingalpha.com/article/102635-will-the-macworld-expo-apple-stock-correlation-continue In this article it talks about how Apple stocks increase from November to January. This positively affects our Apple stock. They say it increased because of high sales because of holidays near the end of the year.

Article two http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/general-mills-finds-winning-recipe-for-stock-gains.htm In this article analysts say "strong brands and product innovation are wooing consumers and keeping sales robust." This is keeping the stock up and it has a positive impact on our stock.
 * 1) I would say that even though we just picked stocks by what we liked and not ones in a specific category we did okay. We did not lose or gain a significant amont of money at any time. If I was to do this differently I would probably choose a different philosphy statement. I would look more into how the companies I was choosing are doing and try to pick ones that I think would not decrease if the econmy wasn't doing very well that that time. And try to find ones that people might even want more of during hard times.
 * 2) I tracked the project pretty often. One to two times a week. At our lowest point we were probably down around $6,000. This was at a time it the economy seemed to be doing pretty bad. A lot of people were losing jobs and there was a lot of bail outs. So that probbly had an impact on our stocks.
 * 3) Project Reflection: What did you learn? What did you have troubles with? Anything that I can do as a teacher to make this project more helpful for you? (1 paragraph)
 * 4) I learned how stocks were and that you should choose wisely what stocks you invest in. Also i learned how prices can fluctuate during hard times. It showed how the economy has a impact on a lot of things. The only problems I had was the stock market game website not working over the weekend this was due and it's a little hard to relate how the stocks are doing to the economy. And this project is pretty good and you helped when I needed it.