Tigger+and+Pooh

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=//Tigger and Pooh//= =CSD_55_ZZ883=

Daniel Cable, Luke Goffeney
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 * **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)** || **How many stocks purchased?** || **Commission:** || **End of Game Price** || **Overall Profit/ Loss** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Palm One || [|PALM] || $7.36 || Makes Touch screen electronics including Palm Pilots and Cell Phones || $36,000 || 5000 || $578.86 || $10.25 || +$15,250 ||
 * Kellogg || [|K] || $9.25 || Makes foods. Seemed to be doing well but wasn't what we thought it would be. || $27,750 || 3000 || $587.40 || $9.89 || +$1,920 ||
 * General Electrics || [|GE] || $7.21 || Makes many tools and electronic appliances. || $20,303.36 || 2816 || $391.11 || $10.26 || +$8,588.8 ||
 * Total: ||  ||   ||   || $84,053.36 ||   || $1,595.24 ||   || $25,758.8 ||

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 * A mixture of** **social skeptic and good consumer, with just a dash of dumb luck thrown in for good measure.**

We chose Palm One because it was one of the only companies whose stocks seemed to be going up through the recession. We choose Kellogg just as a last minute ditch effort to invest more money into the market. We chose GE because usually that is the type of company that will pull through the recession the best while not loosing as much money as other companies. We also chose GE because of the variety of products that they offer. If the household appliances goes up, then that will help the company whereas a company that only offers one product will depend on that product to raise in popularity.

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1. We bought stock in PalmOne whose address is in Milpitas, California. They build mainly touch screen electronics such as Palm Pilots and Cell Phones. We thought that the company's stocks would keep rising as they have in the past few years so we decided that they would be a good investment.

2. We bought stock in Kellogg. They claim to be the worlds leading producer in cerial and convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. We thought that this would be a stable company to put money into.

3. We bought stock in General Electrics whose address is in Fairfield, Connecticut. They are one of the worlds leading companies in global infastructure, finance and media producers. We thought that, with their wide range of products, they would be a very good, stable, company to invest in. =//Current Events and Your Investments (10 points)://=

1. [|PalmOne article] PalmOne CEO leaves the company with a check for between 2.4 million and 2.8 million dollars. 2. [|GE article] GE decides to start a campaign called "Ecomagination".

=//__Final Thoughts, Reflection, Feedback (10 points):__//=

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1. Re-evaluate your initial investment philosophy. Now that the game is completed, how did it work for you? What would you have tried to do differently? (Solid 1-paragraph assessing your strategy, 1 paragraph describing what you would try differently.)=====

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I think that we were very succesfull compared to other groups because we invested in companies that we thought would bounce back from the recession faster than most companies or be big enough companies that they wouldn't be hurt as much as others would. We picked PalmOne because they seemed to be doing well in the past months; the months that other companies seemed to be doing not so well. I think that was what got us the most money and helped us the most.=====

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I think that I would have probably not bought so much stocks in Kellogg or not at all. I think we would have done much better if we had just thrown all of our money into PalmOne and GE. We thought that putting money into something that was a little more stable would be a good choice so that if the stocks in PalmOne and GE failed, then we would have something to fall back on to at least make us a little money.=====

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We tracked our project pretty well and looked at the stocks almost every week that we were doing the project. I think that if this weren't an economic recession, then we would have had to buy stocks at probably 20-30 dollars more than what we bought them in this project. I don't think that any individual issues had much of an impact during this project because the stocks rose at a constant rate during the whole project.======

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) We learned tha that when investing in the stock market, you have to do a lot of research before you invest in any company. And that you should look at the company several years prior to when you research. I think that maybe you should have given us more time in class to do our research and buy and sell stocks. = = = =

=__Initial Research:__=

Electrics || [|GE] || $7.21 || The company makes a wide variety of products so it would be a more stable company. || $19,555.56 || ,
 * **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)** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * PalmOne || [|PALM] || $7.36 || Because it's an electronic company and they seemed to be doing well over the past years. || $28,943 ||
 * Kellogg || [|K] || $9.25 || It is a food company and those types of companies seem to be fairly stable during a recession compared to others. || $29,370 ||
 * General