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How to Build a Stock Portfolio

Navigating the stock market is an intimidating journey these days. The big, supposedly safe stock options suddenly aren’t fool-proof. However, it’s still possible to build up a diversified, safe stock portfolio that will provide a good return on your long-term investment. Here’s how you get started.

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How to Buy Shares

A share, simply put, is a unit of stock. The terms stock and share are often used interchangeably, but the technical definition is that a stock is not a countable unit, whereas a share is. When you purchase stock in a company, you purchase a certain amount of shares of that stock. Here’s how to do so.

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Steps for Buying Stocks

Investing in the stock market is not something limited solely to the ultra rich. However, buying stock can be intimidating for novice investors. While there is no “get rich, quick” method to the stock market, with proper research and sound council, learning to invest in the stock market can be a sound part of your financial plan.

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Disadvantages of Organic Food

Organic food has become an enormously popular trend, with even places like Wal-Mart and Costco selling some organic products. While most people concur that organic food tends to be more healthful, it does have some disadvantages. Before you go all-organic in the kitchen and household, consider when it pays to shop organic and when it’s better to opt out.

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Mommywood's Valentine's Day Predictions for the Stars

How will our favorite celebrity parents spend the most romantic night of the year? Weve looked into our crystal balls and predicted these candlelit scenes. Victoria and David Beckham: Last year, the U.K. couple spent Valentine’s Day apart: Victoria was in Los Angeles looking for a house for the couple and their children, who were about to relocate to the West Coast; David was in Madrid playing soccer. A friend of the couple told People magazine last year that Posh and Becks, “had to make do with spending Valentine’s Day on the phone.