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Individuals, companies and governments keep debt hidden in the best way they can, but Anya Kamenetz, the author of “Generation Debt,” uncovered what debt really means.

She spoke about the nation’s economic debt crisis at Elon University Thursday. She illustrated her points with a PowerPoint presentation that incorporated cartoons of graphics with economic careers.

Debt and the problems it causes was an emphasis- from the greed of corporate banking groups to the hidden risk behind every transaction. Kamenetz talked about how the U.S. economy got into dire straits, showing Wile E. Coyote and likening it to the cliff he always seems to always fall off of.

Her question to us all: What can we do to reverse and change this?

Kamenetz had no gap-changing ideas of how to return to the way things used to be, and in fact suggested we should take a new approach.

“People need to keep putting it (money) into their pockets to keep spending,” Kamenetz said. “Income is not growing, but debt is.” She added that American’s are using above and beyond their means, the poor are getting poorer with less income and jobs, the middle class will take years to recover paying off their multiple mortgages and credit payments, and the wealthy will sit pretty in less than a year.

Kamenetz also emphasizes the need to consider the environment in future planning- noting that a “green” economy will be a positive development. She said our willingness to hurt our ecosystem will haunt us in the future and as a result we will have to pay more for our mistakes.

Our national and individual debt is growing at a steady rate that is unsustainable. She added that there must be a stopping point and that stopping point will mean a crash of some kind.

Big companies are surviving, but what about the average family? They cannot be expected to provide the same positive earnings such as Goldman Sachs, and AIG managed to pull off she said.

“An engaged economy is a better economy,” she said. Ask questions to become engaged.

Kamenetz gave helpful hints on how to save money from the book “Balanced Formula.” With 30 percent for wants, 20 percent for savings, and 50 percent for needs. She also provided Web sites such as, “Mint,” “Smartypig,” “geezeo” and “Qvisory.”

Kamanetz said we should invest in a smarter future. She said there would always be winners and losers, but lets not be so hard on the losers.

“Life is a continuous transition and there is no right job at any right time,” Kamenetz said. “What do you want to be doing, not what do you want to be.”

OK, tell me: Just how trustworthy do you think the Yahoo! Finance blog is?

When the description of a blog is so ridiculously inept, do you find the blog credible?

If you’re anything like me, you’re thinking this market has gone too high too fast to last. It has to fall. But what if I’m wrong? Will I totally miss out on the biggest recovery since WWII?

The Tech Ticker at Yahoo! Finance has had a very bearish bent for at least two months, maybe more. Almost all the experts they have on say we in for a serious correction. Well, all the experts I listen to. But I think the boys at Tech Ticker feel they don’t want to be cheerleaders in this rally and are trying to do their best as journalists to warn people about the dangers ahead.

Today they interview a guy named Gary Shilling who appears to own his own firm. They don’t say who he is or what he does and Aaron Task should be punished for not properly identifying this guy or why he’s a credible analyst. That said, he sounds smart.

And he is smart. He’s an economics consultant with a doctorate from Stanford University. According to his Web site he “set up” the economics department at Merrill Lynch at age 29 and served as the firm’s first economist. He’s also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco. And Schilling has a pretty impressive resume of making correct forecasts before major market turns.

Shilling says after “a 25-year borrowing and spending binge the ability of the U.S. consumer to borrow, especially against their house, is severely constrained.”

He adds with baby boomers needing to feather their nest eggs, savings not spending will be the order of the day for the next few years. On top of that, when people are unemployed they don’t spend a lot of money.

Check out the clip.

How does this tie into ETFs? I think for anyone worried about the state of the market but wants to be invested the smart thing to do is do what professionals do when they don’t know what to do. Buy the SPDR (SPY)

Data harga saham harian, mingguan, bulanan, volume serta deviden dapat di lihat di Yahoo Finance.
langkah-langkahnya:
1. Cari keterangan “Get Quotes”.

2. Di samping keterangan “Get Quotes” ada kotak kosong yang kita isi dengan kode saham perusahaan yang listing. Misal Bank BRI, kodenya BBRI. Berarti kode yang kita ketikkan adalah “^BBRI”. tanda petik (“) tidak perlu di tulis.

Note: jangan lupa mencantumkan tanda topi (^) sebelum kode perusahaan.

3.Klik “Get Quotes”.

4. Nanti akan muncul keterangan data harga saham. Tinggal kita pilih mulai kapan dan sampai kapan data yang akan kita cari.

5. Klik “Download To Spreadsheet” bila ingin mendonlotnya. Ada di bagian bawah sendiri. File berformat CSV. Seperti excel.

Sekian.

En etkili kaynaklardan biri olduğunu düşünüyorum; hem anlık verileri, hem çok uzun bir süreci inceleme şansı vermesi aynı zamanda çokta sade bir tasarıma sahip olması sebebiyle benim favorim http://finance.yahoo.com/ dur. İngilizcesi çok iyi olmayanlar bile yararlanabilirler. Avantajlarının yanında dezavantajları da var tabi  İMKB’ nin yer almamasını birinci sırada sayabiliriz.

A post on the yahoo finance / stock gem had been overdue for a long time. Last week I added the xml support for the result formatting and published a new version of the gem. So I thought its a good time to write a bit about how I got started with it, implementation details, usage, etc.

Problem

My mother has a portfolio of stocks and it became a bit difficult for her to keep an eye on their performance either by using online or print medium. So she beautifully used her powers of delegation and asked me to check them regularly . As usual, first thought, use google or yahoo finance for this kinda stuff but soon I wanted to generate more data for the stocks and I found that they lack them. I said, what the hell and built a rails application that would go to a stock exchange site and scrape the pages. Then I thought, an app like this could be useful for other people like me but the problem was, the site site I was using for scraping was country specific. I decided to make it a bit more general purpose before putting on the github and started using ScrAPI gem (ScrAPI uses CSS selectors for scraping) to scrape data from a site that has stocks from more than just one country. ScrAPI was working fine but wasn’t consistent in some cases. So I started looking for finance APIs, obviously google has a finance API but you need an account with google finance to use it. I think that’s a bit inconvenient for user’s to first have a google finance account to use a library though they may already have but that’s still a hassle. So started looking elsewhere and found yahoo finance. Best thing about yahoo finance is you don’t need any account to use it. And yahoo provides data as CSVs and its easy to use YQL (Yahoo Query Language). Hence, I decided to use Yahoo finance for the data purposes and write a ruby gem that can be used in any ruby or rails application. On another note, I met a couple of awesome yahoo guys at barcamplondon7 who showed me some cool APIs; Developer Apps like, open tables, YAP, blueprint etc,. Check them out here

This is how I got started on nas-yahoo_stock gem.

Implementation

The tests for the gem code are written using rspec 1.2.2 and it has cucumber features for integration testing.

There are different interface classes (based on their responsibilities) that are derived from the base interface class. For example, the quote interface provides quotes for multiple companies in a single request with variable parameters, symbol interface submits request to a yahoo page and scrapes data using some regex rules, etc.

Then we have different result classes to easily present result data in the format we want them. This has been achieved by implementing the Strategy Pattern to switch easily between different result formats. Benefit: a single result interface for the YahooStock::Quote / YahooStock::History / YahooStock::ScripSymbol classes for getting and presenting data into different formats (the examples are given in the Usage section).

I kept one thing into consideration while building the gem was to send requests to yahoo only when it is absolutely necessary. For instance, the gem sends a request to yahoo only when the results method is called on an object like YahooStock::Quote / YahooStock::History / YahooStock::ScripSymbol and not during any other operation. Which is fine but what about calling results multiple times for the same data and format or to generate different formats for the same data? An easy solution for that is to implement the Observer Pattern. The observers in nas-yahoo_stock gem keep an eye on the data requested whenever the results method is called on the quote, symbol or history objects and if the data requested currently is different from the previous request then only the gem hits yahoo else it returns the previous result without hitting yahoo.

The source code for the gem is available on github -> nas-yahoo_stock

Usage

To use the library, start by:

gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
sudo gem install nas-yahoo_stock


Once the gem is installed, we can go to the irb and

require 'rubygems'
require 'yahoo_stock'


Before finding the history or quote information about a company stock we will need the stock symbol for that company. YahooStock::ScripSymbol class gives us all the possible stock symbols for a company. For instance, if we want to find the stock symbol for Yahoo.
symbol = YahooStock::ScripSymbol.new(‘Yahoo’)
To get the results,
symbol.results.output
the above method call give us a string of all the values.
If we want to store the result in a file and come back to it later, then we can
symbol.results.store('file_name')
The results can be easily presented into different formats like
1. to return an array instead of a string use:
symbol.results(:to_array).output
2. to return a hash, use:
symbol.results(:to_hash).output
3. to return xml, use:
quote.results(:to_xml).output

Once we have the stock symbol, then the quote or history information about that stock can be retrieved easily. Lets get to the history part first.

To get a stock’s history, the YahooStock::History class needs to be initialized with a hash of stock symbol, start and the end date for which we need the stock data

history = YahooStock::History.new(:stock_symbols => ‘yhoo’, :start_date => Date.today-20, end_date => Date.today -2)
Then we can call all the same methods on the history object that we have called on the symbol object to get results, like
#to get history as an array
history.results(:to_array).output
#to return a hash, use:
history.results(:to_hash).output
#to return xml, use:
history.results(:to_xml).output
#to store results in a file, use:
history.results.store('filename')


To get quote information about a stock
1. Initialize quote object
quote = YahooStock::Quote.new(:stock_symbols => [‘YHOO’, ‘GOOG’])

If we call the results method on the quote object then it will give us only two values for the above two stocks which are included by default on object initialization. But a number of parameters can be passed to the quote object to get information on and these parameters can be viewed by sending valid_parameters message to the quote object.
quote.valid_parameters

To view the current parameters being used in the quote object
quote.current_parameters

The parameters are also categorised in realtime, standard and extended categories. To use parameters for these categories just pass one of the category names to the quote object and it will use those parameters, for e.g.
quote.realtime

To use all parameters just use:
quote.use_all_parameters

To view the current stock symbols used
quote.current_symbols

To add more stocks to the list
quote.add_symbols(‘MSFT’, ‘AAPL’)

To remove stocks from list
quote.remove_symbols(‘MSFT’, ‘AAPL’)

Then we can call all the same methods on the quote object that we have called on the symbol and history objects to get results, like
#to get quote as an array
quote.results(:to_array).output
#to return a hash, use:
quote.results(:to_hash).output
#to return xml, use:
quote.results(:to_xml).output
#to store results in a file, use:
quote.results.store('filename')


If you need the results in some other format apart from the formats provided by the gem then you can simply pass in a block to the result object like
quote.results{YourSpecialFormat.method_name}

Tracked.com is a new web service that provides not only ticker based company information, but it also provides user-driven information like CrunchBase, Wikipedia, and, to some extent, LinkedIn.  But it is not user driven in the sense of Wikipedia since users can not edit information or add entries.  But it is more customizable for the user and supposedly provides more robust information.
Information provided by Cnet News . http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10379942-26.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

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