Questions for fourth company: RDS.A
1. -How did you decide the quantity (i.e. why did you purchase 5,000 shares instead of 10,000?)?
Since our game is being played for a restricted time, I thought that there was no point to try and save the 10mil $ I was given so every time i bought shares from a company i tried to invest as much as I could into as many shares as possible. This way when the company hopefully goes up I will make even more money on the few companies I invested in, with all the shares i bought.
2. -What made you choose “x” (i.e. what do you know about that product?)?
Gasoline is a material that everyone over the world needs and people will always buy it, so I thought that investing in Shell would be the right company to buy shares from. Shell is the most common one out there and that is why I chose this one and not some other manufacturer.
3. Where is there an abundance of this products main resource and describe that areas political and social climate (i.e. does it come from Africa? Is it located in an area where there is political unrest?)?
You can find large quantities of gasoline in Saudi Arabia. Because of its wealth, this country today is a large threat to developed countries. Many of these go to Saudi Arabia to have their share of the gasoline which creates conflict over power.
4. -Provide a graph showing the market history of stock “x” over the past 20 years (you can use excel for this) and provide a forecast for its future
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1267477200000&chddm=823446&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NYSE:RDS.A&ntsp=0
Even though Shell has been on the red side recently, it was able to recover quickley. I believe
that they will be going back and forth, up and down, for a long time. However when ever it will be
on the plus side it will stay there for a longer time than when negative so it will make more money
than what it will loose.
