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=Welcome to the [|Stock Market Game] page for Mr. Adam's Marketing class.=

===You must type your group name below along with your team member names and you will type a weekly review of stock purchases (absolute minimum 5 per week) along with a rationale of why you made those trades and a weekly summary. See the model below.===

DO....research on stocks, ask friends, parents, etc. go to relevant website:
===[|Wall Street Journal] | [|Moody's] | [|Finance.Yahoo] | [|MONEY.CNN] | [|The Motley Fool] | [|Forbes] |===

00 Group Name: Beatles (members Paul, George, Ringo, John) MODEL

 * Week 01** we bought shares of **[|PFE]** **Pfizer Inc** because of news about new drugs; we bought **[|DPS Dr Pepper Snapple]** because we felt people would buy more soft drinks with the combination of weak economy and spring weather; we bought **[|F] Ford Motor Co** because their sales are picking up and lower unemployment rates could translate into more car sales; we bought **[|RHT]** **Red Hat Inc** because we are bullish on tech stocks; we bought **[|BTU] Peabody Energy Corp** because we wanted to diversify our holdings with an energy company; we SOLD **[|AAPL]Apple Inc. This week we have stocks in 20 companies and made 6 trades; we lost money.**
 * Week 02** we bought...

01 Group Name: MADAM FAN CLUB(Tilden, Kurt, Alex, Eric)
== Week one: we bought IBM, apple, yum, BP, and Best Buy. The reasons we bought these stocks was because we thought that they were safe and likely to be a good return. We lost around $2,000 in the first week. == == Week two: we bought Nike, Mcdonalds, AEG and BBT. These are solid stocks that we thought would give us a good profit. We sold Best Buy because we lost over $1,000 and we needed to invest in something else. ==

03 Group Name: Christine Adam (Cal, Pat)
Week One: We bought Google, Apple, Bank of America, Pentair, and Amylin Pharmacutical becuase they are all solid companies that do well of a regular basis on the stock market. We made a total of 7 trades, and lost about $4,000 in the first week. We sold Best Buy becuase they closed alot of stores and their stock plummeted. We also sold Walmart becuase they were losing us a lot of money.

05 Group Name: We <3 marketing (Gideon, Kevin, Rob)
==Week one: We bought 350 shares of YUM, which owns KFC, Taoc Bell and Pizza Hut. We thought that since these restaurants make really good food the stock would go up. We bought 100 shares of Nike because its popular and 100 in Chipotle Mexican Grill because it is a good restaurant and makes alot of money. We bought 150 shares in IBM and 100 in Ford because the stocks of both companies were going up.==

Week Two: We bought 150 shares of Green Mountain Coffee because it has been steadily going up. We bought 127 shares of Powershares QQQ, which is an exchange-traded fund and it has a good stock. We bought 375 shares of Citigroup INC because it is a very successful bank and will probably continue to grow. We bought300 shares of Fuji Film because they make quality cameras and alot of people like their products. We bought 120 shares of Bank of America because they have a very consistent growing stock.