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Portfolios in Yahoo Finance have dissappeared?

08 Jun

I’ve been using Yahoo finance for tracking my stocks for years. I am still getting Yahoo alert E-mails on stocks I setup alerts for. I have not logged into my portfolio’s for a couple of months. Today, I logged in to check on my stocks after the big day on Wall Street, and they are gone!

Does Yahoo delete them if you don’t look at them after some period of time? Can Yahoo get these back? Or is something else wrong?

I always thought this was the safest place to keep track of my stock information. I used it instead of the Ameritrade site, which I thought was a good choice since they changed hands recently.

 
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How can I reset the language for my yahoo finance portfolios ? Presently it in spanish.?

05 Jun
 
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Which degree is more approrpriate for a Corporate Finance job? MS in Finance or a DBA?

02 Jun

Assume that this is for career development, personal goal, and a future position in the academe upon retirement from the corporate world. I was thinking my field of research would focus on the impact on shareholder value of portfolio management of conglomerates. What do you think about the dissertation topic?

 
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Is there any charge for using Yahoo Finance to follow portfolios that I am just following and not invested in?

02 Jun
 
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Yahoo! Finance – My IE browser is behaving poorly. I cannot open my portfolios without going to the main page

30 May

I have been having a problem launching portfolios from Yahoo! Finance on a single PC since yahoos most recent upgrade. I usually have to always head back to the main Finance page and wait for a page refresh and ads to load – and then, sometimes I can’t launch my portfolios 50% of the time. I have cleared everything short of cookies. Note, this is not a problem on any other PCs other than my home office server. Thanks.
AGE

 
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portfolio “edit” function not working in finance?

27 May

help-
…says “not connected to internet”..but I am. Stocks shows fine.
Just happened this AM…still out of service.
What do I do..or is it Yahoo?

 
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Yahoo finance “my portfolio”, how do re-order the portfolios?

27 May

In yahoo finance, you can create many portfolio to track stock/ETC/Mutual fund. After you create multiple portfolio, how do you order them?

 
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Need some help on my FINANCE HOMEWORK?

25 May

Hello,

So I was doing my Finance homework, then I realized i’m so ignorant on this subject. Would someone help me out?

Very appreciate for your help!!!

1. As a portfolio manager, you decide to decrease the beta of your portfolio of common stocks.
We do not discuss why this may be a good thing or not, let us say that the management
company that you work for asks you to temporarily decrease the “market” risk of your
portfolio and you must do it. As a graduate from the Whitman School, you manage a Value
Fund whose beta is 1.5. The mark-to-market value of your portfolio at March 10, 2009 is
$1,345,000,000. Since your portfolio is large you choose to use the S&P500 futures market
for its depth and liquidity; i.e. you can take large positions without moving the market. Your
target beta is 0.80 for the next three months, and the beta of the futures (whichever you
choose) is 1.05.
2. Go to the CME Group web site and find the S&P 500 contract specifications. Specifically,
find whatever you need to calculate the notional value for the regular (not mini) S&P500
contract. Write down only the relevant information as the answer to this section and explain
your answer in no more than 2 lines.
3. Use the closing futures price as of March 10 for your calculations (use your own imagination
and resources to find this price). Which futures contract (expiration month and year) would
you use and why? What is the futures price for this contract on March 10? What is the notional
value of this contract on March 10?
a. The June contract which expires on the third Friday of June or June 19. It overlaps the three month
period over which I have to reduce the beta of my portfolio.
b. 713.1
c. 713.1 x 250 = 178,275
4. Briefly explain what you have to do to reduce the beta of your portfolio and show your
calculations.
5. Three months from March 10, your portfolio mark-to-market value is $1,123,000,000 and the
S&P 500 futures price decreases 12%. What is the mark-to-market value of your portfolio,
when you include your position in the futures? What was the rate of return of this portfolio
over the three month period?
6. Over the three month period, what was the effective beta of your portfolio? Show your work.

 
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Is there a way on Yahoo finance portfolios to get metal prices?

24 May

I’d like to be able to display current metal prices. Gold,Silver,Copper and Uranium Listed on my portfolios.
Can this be done? I saw futures but no Idea what to select.
I think these are on CBOT

 
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What is going on with Yahoo finance. My portfolios are all messed up?

21 May
 
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Is there any student pursuing M.Com (Accounting and Finance). I want to know the books written by good authors

20 May

I m a Delhi (INDIA) student pursuing M.COM (Accounting and Finance) from Annamalai University. I am not aware of the books written by good or prominent authors related to that course so if any one of you know something about these books plz tell me.

The name of the subjects are as follows:

1) Managerial Finance
2) Investment and portfolio management
3) Managing financial services

 
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Where to go CANADA, AUSTRALIA, or NEW ZEALAND for MBA or Post Graduate Diploma in Finance????

20 May

i am a BBA student, with finance as my specialisation. i am interested in investment/portfolio management, financial planning and for further studies i want to go abroad. i have the above three countries in my mind. i want to know where should i go judging by 3 parameters. 1> cost (education and living…..2> value of the degree…….3> job availabilty after the education.

if someone has any other suggestions like:

should i choose any other line of study? and why?
should i consider any other countries?and why?
etc. etc.

please do let me know. i genuinely will apreciate the help because i am a little confused with my life, after graduation.

thank you

 
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Help with Tough Finance Question…please!!!!?

17 May

Portfolio manager for Investment Fund has been charged with minimizing the yearly standard deviation for the fund’s portfolio return while pursuing a target expected portfolio return of 7.5 percent per year. The portfolio manager’s investment universe includes four asset classes: Treasury bills, treasury bonds, gold and the value weighted Wilshire 500 index of US stocks. The expected yearly returns for Treasury bills and Treasury bonds are respectively 1 percent and 4 percent, while the expected yearly returns for gold and US stocks are respectively 7 percent and 10 percent. Although treasury bills are risk free, the yearly standard deviation of the returns for Gold and US stocks is -0.05, the standard deviation of the yearly returns for both Gold and US stocks is 22 percent. The correlation between the yearly returns for gold and treasury bonds is 0.000, while the correlation between the yearly returns for Treasury bonds and US stocks is 0.38. Assuming the Stockade’s portfolio manager is not permitted to short sell securities, determine:

A. the standard deviation of the yearly return and portfolio weights for the minimum portfolio of the four asset classes described above having an expected yearly return of 7.5 %

B. Assuming that increased interest in trading Gold to hedge against hyper-inflation increases the correlation between the yearly returns for gold and US stocks to 0.30, determine the yearly standard deviation and portfolio weights for the minimum variance portolio having an expected yearly return os 7.5%, and provide an intuitive explanation for any differences between the risk and portfolio weights from part (a).

 
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What additional certification do i need to my MBA-FINANCE degree, to enhance my prospects in finance?

17 May

i’ve done basic management accounting, and the specialization majors were – Security analysis and portfolio management, merchant banking basics, and international finance.

 
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