The author shows different ways that Facebook will make money.

Facebook Ads

Facebook Credits

Facebook Search

Facebook Games

Facebook pages & Places

The article is not about the revenue streams Facebook has; it’s about the revenue streams they’re about to have.

Read the whole article at techcrunch

Facebook Revenue Projection Next 5 Years is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

According to the SEC filing, the $600million raised from the IPO will be put to work to buy commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, real estate-related assets and other financial assets.

PIMCO real estate investment trust, or REIT, will seek to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PIMR, according to the filing.

PIMCO REIT IPO Date & Price

In the filing, PIMCO did not give the IPO price or the date of the IPO. These will be communicated at a later date.

PIMCO REIT IPO is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Glencore was founded by billionaire Marc Rich in 1974 as Marc Rich & Co. AG. Yes, this is the same Marc Rich that was indicted on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran in the late 70s. He was also notably pardoned by President Clinton on his last day of office.

Through a Management buyout, Mark Rich sold the company for $600 million. Today the company is valued at over $60 Billion. The company is still run by guys hired during Marc Rich days.

There is a good bio of Marc Rich at Wikipedia.

About Marc Rich Founder of Glencore is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

The consumer products giants Unilever and Proctor & Gamble (P&G) have been fined 315m euros (£280m, $456m) for fixing washing powder prices in eight European countries.

What makes this story even more interesting is that it was Henkel, a rival company that tipped off the European Commission.

The fines were discounted by 10% after the two admitted running a cartel. Unilever was fined 104m euros and P&G was fined 211.2m euros.

Uniliver and Procter & Gamble Fined For Price Fixing is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Google Stock Forecast : Google Stock prediction : Google stock outlook

One fundamental that makes a good case for Google stock to rise higher is data on internet advertising.

The nation’s top 100 advertisers direct just 5.5% of their total ad spending to the web, according to industry trade publication Advertising Age. Meanwhile, Internet advertising is expected to hit 9% of total ad spending by 2011, according to Jupiter Research, an industry research firm.

Paid search advertising, which is Google’s bread and butter, accounts for 40% of total ad spending on the Net and is the fastest growing category, helped by the fact that it’s both cost effective and highly scalable.

“Even at 40%, search has just barely scratched the surface,” Aggarwal says. “We think advertisers on a long-term basis are going to embrace search. Google, with the largest market share, is the biggest beneficiary of that growth.” Data Source: smartmoney.com article.

Although Google has been accused of being a one trick-pony that relies 99% on advertising, the above data shows Google core business of  search advertising is solid and the company will continue on the path of higher revenues, higher profits that translates to a higher stock price.

Facebook : The elephant in the room

Facebook is growing fast and attracting advertisers but i don’t think Facebook is a threat to Google business. Google is good at search advertising while Facebook is good at display advertising.

Google Stock Forecast : Google Stock Prediction is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Harry Dent Dow Forecast : Harry Dent Stock Market Forecast

Harry Dent has looked at his charts and predicts the Dow will trade as high as 13,200 by mid-summer 2011 and the S&P 500 as high as 1430, or more-than 7% above current levels.

“Then we could see another major crash,” Dent says, forecasting the Dow could trade as low as 3300 in a worst-case scenario. “Bubbles go back to where they started or a little lower,” he says. “The stock market bubble started at (Dow) 3800 in late 1994.”

Harry Dent Gold Forecast : Commodities Forecast : Oil Forecast

Dent predicts the Dow’s crash will play out over several years, he foresees present danger in gold, silver, oil and other commodities. “All investors should lighten up on or sell oil, silver, and gold as the U.S. dollar looks like it has bottomed and should rise ahead,” he writes in the March issue of HS Dent Forecast.

Harry Dent Investment Predictions & Forecast is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

U.S Home Inventory Data

The National Association of Realtors says the current inventory of existing homes that are listed for sale are 3.5 million.

According to research firm CoreLogic, there’s another 1.8 million homes sitting in shadow inventory. These are homes that don’t yet show up in National Association of Realtors listing.

U.S Home Values 2011 Report

With such a high backlog of unsold homes, it is a buyers market. And there is data supporting the downward decline of U.S home values. There was March 2011 report that showed that 19 of the 20 largest metro areas tracked by the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index saw a price slump in January 2011.

Source of data, Yahoo Finance Real Estate news.

U.S Home Prices Trend 2011 is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Data from US farmland prices & statistics show, since 2000, U.S. farmland prices have risen by 58% after inflation, according to the FDIC. And since 2003, they’ve risen by over 10% annually.

To put it in real numbers, the average price of an acre of U.S. farmland more than doubled from $1030 in 1999 to $2350 in 2008.

Investing In farmland Via ETF

One strategy to take advantage of this boom in US farmland prices is buying a US farmland ETF ( exchange traded fund). ETFs investing in farmland are not plentiful but they are out there.

Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF

One US farmland ETF that we are aware of is the Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (NYSE:MOO). This farmland ETF is listed in NYSE.

It is cheaper to buy an ETF than to go out and buy a farmland.

US Farmland ETF is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

The ranking was based on which industries are hiring most in 2011. Which is a good indicator of industries that are growing.

Top Ten Growth Industries / sectors 2011

1. Office staffing.
2. Tourism
3. Education
4. Restaurants
5. Car dealership
6. Doctors
7. Home building
8. Warehouse clubs & supercentres
9. Nursing homes and elderly services
10. Supermarket and grocery stores.

Top Ten Growth Industries 2011 is a post from: Daily Investment Tips

Bofa profit forecast & prediction

BofA has predicted pretax earnings of $35bn-$40bn a year once its businesses recovered from the financial crisis.

BofA dividend yield

It means shareholders could be set to receive close to $10 billion in dividends.

Bank Of America Dividend Policy is a post from: Daily Investment Tips