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USPS HOLIDAYS

January 17, 2011 by · Comments Off on USPS HOLIDAYS 

USPS HOLIDAYS, According to USPS, there will be no regular home delivery, however, Express Mail will be delivered.

There will be no retail window service at any United States Postal Service station or branch.

Customers using a debit card or credit may use the automated postal centers found throughout the district of Greater Indiana. They are available 24 hours a day, every day of the week, including holidays and can perform 80% of transactions available at postal retail outlets such as broadcast packets and postage purchase.

Mail delivery will resume Tuesday, January 18, 2011.

U.S. Postal Service has today officially unveiled images of its program of commemorative stamps. Among this year’s winners are former President Ronald Reagan, the legendary author Mark Twain, the award-winning actor and actress Helen Hayes and Gregory Peck, and Latin music giants Selena, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Miranda, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz.

In addition, the former congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas is the winner of the 2011 Black Heritage stamp. Stamps will be issued to observe the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the 50th anniversary of America’s first manned flight and a celebration of Disney Pixar characters: Lightning McQueen and Mater from cars; Remy the rat and Linguini Ratatouille Buzz Light year and two green, three-eyed aliens from Toy Story, Carl Fredricksen and Dug Up, and the robot WALL * E * E Wall Send stamps Hello.

New designs of stamps will be issued several series, including Purple Heart, wedding and holiday stamps in 2011.

Lunar New Year: Year of the Rabbit stamp, to be published Jan. 22, will be a Forever stamp for use in sending a letter 1-ounce. Regardless of when the stamps are purchased or used in the New Year, whatever the price may change in future, these stamps will always be equal to the price of First-Class Mail 1 ounce.

Since the first Forever stamp, with the Liberty Bell, was published in April 2007, 28 billion Forever Stamps have been sold, leading to 12.1 billion in total revenue. Now that the postal service offers coils, brochures and vacation Forever Stamps, nearly 85 percent of its program of Forever stamps.

Stamps can be purchased at local post office, the Postal Store at www.usps.com site / shop or by calling 800-STAMP-24.

Source: http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/usps-mlk-service

Stock Quotes

November 18, 2010 by · Comments Off on Stock Quotes 

Stock Quotes, Stock prices have useful information about the value of a stock at a given time. Traders often use quotes for information on changes in the stock market and make trades. Stock quotes are available in a variety of sources, such as Yahoo Finance or MSN Money.

They usually appear as fractions or decimals, quotes provide information on stock prices at different times. Stock prices are quoted in percentage points in increments of eighths of a point. in the U.S., each point equals one dollar, and each increase is 12 cents and a half. which are the main tool for businesses to conduct trade or investment. Quotes are also available for other derivatives such as futures, options, forex, currencies etc. there are many different types of appointments as historical quotes, quotes delayed and real time quotes. Historical quotes are used to understand and predict periodic trends of stock. are the prices and patterns of change before a specific point in time. Delayed quotes are delayed by 15-20 minutes. Most stock market investors and traders use them. real-time quotes are less than a minute behind, and are usually provided by specialized websites cited. These are generally used for day traders online trading according to very small changes in stock prices.

How are stock prices vary from one source to another. Some may be graphs with the values, others are pictures that show the values, or may even be a single line of words with alphabets and decimals. Stock quotes presentations from different sources can also vary depending on the information provided therein. a fully detailed stock quote includes the price change of day, day trading range, 52 weeks (one year) range, the volume of shares traded, the average volume of trade, market capitalization, earnings per share (EPS), dividend yield, the P / E, the closing price, highest price of the day, and lowest price of the day.

Every action has a set of events known as the bid price and ask price. the price at which market makers or specialists are willing to purchase the shares is the bid price. the selling price is the price at which the market maker is willing to sell the shares. spread is the difference between the ask price and bid price, which is responsible for liquidity in low priced stocks. Ask price and bid price are a necessity, because for every buyer has to be a seller and every seller there must be a buyer

stock quotes are available in a variety of resources. Delayed stock quotes can be obtained from magazines, newspapers, websites of the company, the stock market, broker web sites, Yahoo Finance and MSN Money (although most often quoted a newspaper is a day of delay, while the Internet quotes are delayed 15 minutes.) While delayed stock quotes are free stock quotes in real time is a paid service. Recently Google and CNBC have presented their willingness to provide free stock quotes in real-time NYSE stocks with the SEC, which if done will actually be an additional benefit to all types of traders.

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