Investing and Monitoring the Stock Market

Over the past semester in Economics I have invested in and monitored the stock market. I learned how investing in certain companies can be risky and proper research about the companies are detrimental before buying stocks. Three stocks that have influenced most of my financial earnings and losses include Twitter, Amazon, and Pepsi.

I would like to introduce you to Twitter Inc., a modern and popular form of self-expression on the Internet. It provides users with a plethora of services including Twitter, an application that allows the user to share and distribute content to their followers. The company also owns Vine, a mobile application where users can create and share short looping videos, and #Music, another mobile application that assists users in finding new music and artist based on tweets. Twitter Inc. also provides a set of tools, public APIs, and embeddable widgets that developers can use to contribute their content to its platform. Twitter was founded in San Francisco in 2006. Today, Twitter has 255 monthly active users and 500 million tweets sent per day (Twitter Inc.). Unfortunately Twitter Inc. has failed to progress during the time I invested in their company. In December 2013 Twitter Inc.’s net income was -511,471,000 this number decreased by more than half it value to -132,362,000 by March 31st, 2014 (Yahoo Finance). Both of these net incomes over a quarter are negative numbers that indicate financial losses. The recent fall of stock prices seems to be the cause of Twitters declining timeline views per a monthly active user. People are now discussing the relevancy factor for Twitter, as most users don't know what to do when on Twitter. As a result, some open an account and do not use the site after. In recent ar...

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... quantities supplied, shifting the market equilibrium to a higher equilibrium quantity and a lower equilibrium price. I think this accounted for a higher revenue for PepsiCo, which is why their stocks have increased this year. I really wish I wouldn’t have sold them off so soon.

While the majority of my stocks weren’t doing too well, I’ve learned from my research that stock prices have been consistently rising over the course of this semester. This can lead one to believe that consumer confidence has increased, and the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. More and more consumers seem to trust the private sector, investing their money into firms that are bringing various goods and services to the national economy. From this I conclude that the U.S. economy is growing, and I hope that it will keep growing for a long period of time.