MSNBC Stocks to watch to today May 25 2010

Autozone AN
comcast  cmcsa
Brithish petroleum Bp       
Goldman sach GS
Bank of America BA

Crude Oil Spill and BP.

The Crude Oil spill at the Golf of Mexico, has created problems all over. British petroleum "BP" is said to be responsible for the spill; should this be the time to point fingers or time to take action?. The Crude oil spill is currently 35 days old, all attempts to stop the crude oil leak has been unsuccessful. BP will attempt another trial to stop the leak today. According to CNN "BP's next attempt to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will involve a maneuver called "top kill," in which heavy drilling fluid is to be pumped into the head of the leaking well at the seafloor".  We hope this procedure will be successful, is so, it will relieve the golf of Mexico from crude oil poisoning, the oil leak has done a lot of damages already, the stock market is seeing a lot of red, many live stocks are found offshore covered with crude oil, fishes are killed and fisher men's and farmers are disturbed from their daily work. If BP fail to find solution to this problem it will be a severe disaster.

Dividend Explained

Most of us are familiar with the world dividend, but do we really know what it means? from a survey I conducted on http://investingport.com I found out that most investors do not know exactly what type of benefits that is hidden in stock dividend . If you are one of the investors or potential investors that will like to know what dividend is you are at the right place.
Dividend is a payment made by a company or a cooperate firm to its shareholder; this happen when company make profits. Since stockholder are part of the cooperate owner, this companies will share the profit with stockholders, the profit could be presented to stockholder in two ways, either as a payout or retained for the sake of re-investing into the company. Now that we are informed of what dividend is, I guess that is another skill to investing other than just buying and selling for profits.