10-06-2017, 06:53 AM
to use a newspaper to study and report on shares and dividend
Before getting into the newspaper records of stock market activity, you would need to have background knowledge about how and why companies create stock, how companies determine dividends, and what the symbols in the stock table mean.
Once you have that working knowledge, I would suggest selecting a portfolio of stocks that are included in the daily stock market table of the newspaper you will be using. Create a spreadsheet or other method of tracking the information you want to include in your report and add the statistics for each of your stocks in each of your categories every day for a period of time. Ideally, this would extend over a long period (at least one month) but you may need to use a shorter time span. If you are allowed to use other resources in addition to the newspaper, check readings for your chosen stocks over the past months and years by looking up the stock records on their websites.
When you are done collecting your data, you will be able to use it to analyze sales trends, price fluctuations, correlation of sales prices or dividend payments to current news events, how stock prices and dividend payments relate to companies being bought and sold by other businesses, and many other possible topics. Some of your information may be limited by the data you actually have to use, but you should be able to compile and present quite a bit of information.
This is a great question. Shares and dividends are important to know about if you are doing to invest. If you are writing a report on them and want to use the newspaper for research, there are a few things that you can do.
First, you will need to choose the correct newspapers. I would go with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Time. They are the most reputable and the former is about the financial world.
Second, since we live in the digital age, most of these newspapers are online. This means that you can do research through key words. So, I would say that that the easiest thing to do is type in words like, "dividend". If you have more time, what you can do is look at headline. This should get you started.