Reading more, beyond the bottom line... Remember that every news article is important, as important money managers are reading the same articles and may be basing major buying or selling decisions on that information...
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In addition to checking the Yahoo! Finance Headlines, you should also check another source, such as Google News, by entering your stock's symbol on that News page. Again, the greater your perspective on your stock, the greater your ability to predict share price trends, given what you find out is affecting your company, as well as your company's competitors. The image at right, and link below, takes you to that page. Simply enter your own stock symbol to search for the most current related news items that include mentions of that symbol in their stories. While information changes each minute, you should scan these news headlines for positive and negative opinions about your stock, its competitors, and any pending government legislation that could negatively or positively affect your stock. This could give you an advance opportunity, and prompt you to buy or sell given these news points, in advance of the reaction from the big money managers who will significantly move the share price depending on the news. This can mean real money saved (if selling) or gained (if buying) by you if you react to the news before the big fund managers who have much more power to affect the share price. Additionally, individual stories are important, but you may start to realize an emerging trend of, say, negative news stories about your company, indicating a pessimistic attitude toward your stock, and that you should consider selling, if other factors you seek also support this possible reason to sell your position. [link to this information - here >]
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Stock News: In addition to using Yahoo! Finance link above, we check the business websites for site-specific news about Intel here: [link to this information - here >]
Company and Competitor News: We utilize Google News, searching for "INTC" but also Intel's competitors' symbols in the search bar: "AMD" and "NVDA" and "TXN" and "STM". [link to this information - here >]
Industry (Semiconductor) News: We utilize Google News, searching for "Semiconductor" [link to this information - here >]
Other News: We utilize Google News, searching for "Intel" which yields different stories than using the stock symbol, "INTC"...
Our Conclusions: We found news of the recent quarter's results, and some key competitor information, but news is a dynamic element, so you have to find out what the current news is at that moment, prior to making your trading decision, so our findings aren't relevant to helping you, given that they are immediately outdated, upon posting this page. You have to continually check the news areas above to stay current in the news that may affect your stock.
After you check the latest news, it is helpful to find out if there is an upcoming Industry Event which may offer product or service announcements from your company, or its competitors, that may affect your company's share price.
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