1. My Portfolio by Alex Ghorishi

2. Allotment of Money Allotment of Money

3. Allotment of Money: Table Company Name Symbol Price per Share Shares Total Price MicrosoftMSFT26.145130.7 Bank of AmericaBAC6.4627174.42 TJX CompaniesTJX58.2210582.2 TargetTGT50.4515756.75 Whole Foods Market WFM71.33251783.25 Toyota MotorTM70.02352450.7 Exxon MobilXOM73.59402943 McDonald’sMCD90.15131171.95

4. Microsoft(MFST) ❖R❖Recent deal with Samsung ❖Q❖Quarterly earnings and revenue are higher than HP ❖M❖Microsoft and Samsung are working together on smartphones

5. Microsoft Graph

6. Bank of America (BAC) ❖B❖Bad news: European banks soar while American banks struggle ❖I❖ING Groep was up 3%, while US banks like Citigroup was recently down 0.5% and Bank of America was down 0.4% after falling more than 2% earlier ❖B❖Bank of America added a $5 monthly fee for users who use their debit cards to purchase items ❖T❖This fee has been criticized by Senator Durbin and President Barack Obama

7. Bank of America Graph

8. TJX Companies (TJX) ❖C❖Customers are still favoring bargains ❖A❖As prices of Macy’s and TJX go up, customers are going to discount retailers ❖B❖Bad news for these department stores ❖S❖Slow job growth and weak consumer spending

9. TJX Graph

10. Target (TGT) ❖ Stock is difficult to buy ❖ Approaching moving average ❖ Has the highest dividend of general merchandise companies, 2.4% ❖ Now includes food discount stores and fully equipped online store in addition to their general merchandise stores

11. Target Graph

12. Whole Foods Market (WFM) ❖S❖Sells fresh food only ❖T❖This appeal to buyer’s because they advertise their food as healthy ❖M❖Market Cap of 11 billion ❖P❖PE of 36.33

13. Whole Food’s Graph

14. Toyota Motors (TM) ❖T❖Toyota is seeing sales decline after Japan’s tsunami and earthquake in March ❖S❖Strong Japanese Yen is hurting trade, which includes Toyota’s sales ❖I❖In Japan, it is a good time to buy, not to sell

15. Toyota Graph

16. Exxon Mobil (XOM) ❖ Slowing pace of global recovery and turmoil in Libya have forced oil prices down ❖ Share prices are going down ❖ Good news, Libya is soon going to be producing 500,000 b/day ❖ Also, new oil drills are being opened

17. Exxon Mobil Graph

18. cDonald’s (MCD) ❖ People knocking on doors for new jobs, job growth ❖ All employees are being trained professionally ❖ Opening new restaurants

19. McDonald’s Graph

20. Stock Results after Trading At first, I invested $9,993.57 At the end of the fourth day, I had $9756.2 This resulted in a loss of $237.37

21. Graph of Results

22. The Graph Explained As shown by the graph, at first I spent almost $10,000 After one bad day in the stock market, my total dropped to almost $9,500 The next two days, the stocks rose to about $9,750

23. Precise Totals First Day: 9993.57 Second Day: 9519.25 Third Day: 9646.28 Fourth Day: 9756.20

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