What's a better investment right now, Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS) or Google (GOOG)?
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To me Reliance is a real corporation with assets and produces products and pays out dividends. Despite their stock price, Google is still just a search engine! Just think how would would feel if Google drops 30.00 plus dollars or more a share on a one day swing. The most I've ever seen Reliance drop has been $5.00 a share.
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My answer is google for the following reasons:\n\nPros of Google:\n\nAs a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.\n\nFor makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.\n\nGoogle also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.\n\nThe relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.\n\nGoogle has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.\n\nCons of Google:\n\nHowever, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.\n\nAlso, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.\n\nDue to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.\n\nYahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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http://www.google.com searh engine is # 1 at present in the world.
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tata is cheaper\ngood connectivity then reliance
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My vote goes to Google.\n\nMy answer is google for the following reasons:\n\nPros of Google:\n\nAs a seach engine, google has the best relevance and presents the results in a way that I find easy to decide what pages are best for me. Its the best in terms of researching information.\n\nFor makin money, a #1 on google is worth many times more than a #1 on yahoo. Yahoo! blocks the top of the SERPs with sponsored ads.\n\nGoogle also has a neat interface. Yahoo is not bad too, but its interface is not that neat. The reason for that being it to be a portal. I think a nice interface is very important since people will come back more often if so.\n\nThe relevance of search results make its 'Feeling Lucky' feature pretty useful. Firefox address bar by defaults goes to 1 site listed on your search results.\n\nGoogle has tried to stay away from Spam/ misleading sites better than other search engines.\n\nCons of Google:\n\nHowever, few problems with google, its web crawler dosen't capture hyperlinks from PDF files stored on net, a feature which Yahoo provides.\n\nAlso, Google at present does not provide an index for video aggregation through the web crawler, a feature which Altavista provided since 1999. The problems include accuracy of the media file. That is the reason for providing Google Videos where users have to submit videos.\n\nDue to a larger share of 'searching' community, Google has been targeted by bloggers by planting Google Bombs. Because most bloggers mention the word failure with President Bush's name, the #1 site on searching Failure is the website of President Bush.\n\nYahoo is doing pretty good research in Search Technologies, for example Grokker.\n\nhttp://www.grokker.com/grokker.html?query=Anirudh%20Koul&Yahoo=true&Daypop=true&numResults=250
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buy google,it's cheap
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I agree. Suger is a great buy right now. The stocks I have been watching are up 10% a day.\n\n Its due to ethinal production. Ethinal from suger is much cheaper then from corn and more inviromentally friendly.
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Not unless you like lots of risk. Google is a very volatile stock.  There is no doubt that Google is over valued but let me remind you of the internet bubble of 1998-2000. These stock were overpriced in 1998 but that did not prevent them from rising another 5 fold--some of which were not worth the paper the certificates were printed on--Global Crossing comes to mind. Cisco was selling at 20 in 1998 and 100 in 2000. Now it under 20. And it is a good company. Google is too. \n\nIf you really, really have a hanckering to short Google two ways to do it to minimize your risk are as follows: 1) is to buy a put on the stock. The put will give you a period of time to sell Google at a particular price. \n\nFor example a 370 put expiring in the end of June 2006 will currently cost you $2100 for 100 shares. If the stock closes below $348 by the expiration date in June you will make money. If not you will loose your $2100 but nothing more. Of course you may ask why does the put cost so much when the stock is currently selling at 435.  Because a lot of people think it might be over priced. \n\nAs the price of Google rises and falls, the price of the options also rises and falls and as the option approaches the expiration date, its value also falls.\n\n2) short the stock and buy a call option. The call option gives you the ability to buy the stock at a given price for a given length of time. That way if Google rises 30 points the day after you short it, your loss is limited to the cost of the call option.
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Frankly, I was very interested in giving you my honest technical view of GOOG until I took a second look at your first question... "What is the current position of Google's Stocks"? If you do not even know how much or where Google's stock is now, then you really have no rights to ask anybody where it will go.\n\nIt is like asking if the light bulb is bright enough when you are blind to begin with.\n\nYour question reveals the fact that you are a complete newbie with very weak basic, fundamental knowledge in the stock markets and is about to do something you might regret for a very long time.\n\nListening to free, off the street advice is an expressway to disaster. Read more good books and articles on investments to expand your vision and horizon before you decide to go deeper into the subject. For some of the best investment books that I have ever read, please visit http://www.bestoptiontradingbooks.com\n\nInvesting or trading the stock markets never start from asking how to buy a certain stock ... it starts from adequate investment and trading knowledge. There are quite a number of things you need to learn before you can even start thinking of the stock markets ...\n\n1. You need to understand how the stock market works and what it is exactly about.\n\n2. You need to know what are the different styles of trading in stocks and shares. \n\n3. You need to read about why so many people lose their shirts in the stock markets so that you can avoid their mistakes and also decide if this is a risk you want to take.\n\nFor all these issues and more, you can read about them from some of the articles that I wrote at http://www.mastersoequity.com/articles.htm\n\nAfter you are adequately armed with the basic concepts and ideas, you need to know how to find profitable stocks to trade or invest in. You can do that the easy way by subscribing to stock pick services (example http://www.stockpickmaster.com ) or you can learn to use charting tools and softwares to find stocks with parameters that you can pre-define. (example http://www.worden.com ) \n\nAll in all, investment and trading is a lifelong education and non stop learning. No one is ever done learning and catching up with changes in the markets. \n\nIf you care to read about how I went from completely broke to retired millionaire trading stocks and options by 28 years old, you can go to http://www.mastersoequity.com/\n\nRemember, the slogan "Just Do It", Just won't do for the stock markets. If profiting in the stock markets is as simple as buying a single stock , then why are so many people still poor?\n\nAfter you have all the above mentioned knowledge, you need to ask the following golden questions before you can decide whether a stock is worth buying or not :\n\n1. Why are you of the opinion that this stock will rise?\n\n2. Is your opinion valid in the first place?\n\n3. When are you expecting it to rise? Can you hold on for that period of time or longer?\n\n4. What is your expected entry price? After what price would your expected profit margin be too thin to enter upon?\n\n5. Where is your expected stop loss point? What is your stop loss point based on? Where will you tell yourself that it is time to take a loss and get out?\n\n6. Where is your expected profit taking point? What is your profit taking point based on? \n\n7. Does the way you are buying the stock allow you to hold on until your expected profit taking point?\n\n8. How much of your money should you dedicate to this one trade?\n\n9. What is the level of primary, secondary and idiosyncratic risk you are undertaking when deciding how much of your fund to use?\n\n10. What is your cashflow need? Does your cashflow needs allow you to hold the full lifetime of the stock?\n\nAfter you are able to answer all these questions confidently, THEN you are ready to... PAPER TRADE your stock strategy. Yes, even at this point, you are NOT READY to trade for real. You should trade on PAPER for at least 6
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Yahoo is being taken to the cleaners by Google.  Google is a better managed more diversified company that is beating them in every area right now.\n\nYahoo does have value, it has a large cash holding and I might even buy some if the price drifts down to the low $20's.  They are working on a new algorithm for their search engine which will make it work more effectively and allow them to take some ad dollars back from Google.  The project has been delayed a couple of times but should be live by early next year.  That means the first couple of quarters next year should be more impressive than this year.  \n\nThere is also a floor under the stock - if Yahoo falls too far there will be a takeover bid.  There are not that many search engines out there.  Microsoft is normally mentioned, but companies like Disney, Viacom or even Time Warner would be interested.  However whatever happens Yahoo will NOT be going back to $356.  Those days are over.
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If I had enough money i would invest in KVHI.\n \nThey are the company that created portable internet, like in your vehicle and so forth.  I feel they have a lot of potential for growth.\n\n\nhttp://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=kvhi\n\n\nTry this link also\nhttp://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/srs/srsmain.asp?Symbol=KVHI
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Google is doing many good things and is still growing. If you can, I would buy as much as you can. I can see Google (GOOG) going up to $600.00 per share. You will need to hang on, it will be a wild ride this stock is going to be very volatile.
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try http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RSH
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Indian market is drastically crashed. from 12000 index to now 9300...This is the best time to invest ur money bcos all companies have got their original price n bottoms.Register in ICICI Direct online account for quick buying/selling/operating/demat shares. pls buy only for longterm perspective.i m opearting my demat via icici which is best comfortable service thou it levies 0.80% which is higher compare to other brokers.
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My first choice would be Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd (NYSE:RDY).  It is an Indian Drug Company.  Second choice would be HDFC Bank Ltd (NYSE:HDB), an Indian bank located in Mumbai.  Make sure to do your own research prior to investing.
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Only one way to make your money go farther:  BORROW.\n\nOptions:  These are contracts that you buy which, if they meet a certain criteria, allow you to purchase shares at a set price at a set time.  For instance, a contract to buy 100 google shares at $225 on April 1st.  YOu might pay $70 for this contract (at least).\n\nOn April 1st, you have to buy the google shares.  If they are worth more than the $70 price in your contract, you gain 100 shares times the difference.  BUT>...  if they are worth less, you have lost the difference.\n\nI recommend you check out www.motleyfool.com or other investing sites.  When in doubt, check with a professional.\n\nAlso, online stock challenges are a good way to hone your skills and strategies without risk.  JUst write "stock challenge" into any search engine.  GOOD LUCK!
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Friend,\n\nYahoo is in beta stage and it is giving its adv to selected sites. Google is public you can use that and you can also get paid in indian rupees. So use google adsense.