Personal Investment Guide

I need to know stuff about the stock market like:
1 Stocks and bonds
2Why companies sell stocks and bonds
3 Why people buy stocks
4 Individual value, growth and dividend-payin stocks; yield
5Cheap and Expensive stocks: Price earning ratio
6 Mutual funds, index funds, stock sectors, exchange traded funds
7 Bull and Bear markets
Thank you so much in advance. Answer any [...]

I’m investing for a 30+ year horizon and I have a hypothesis that I should put the majority of my money in index funds tied to the stock markets of India (India Index Exchange Traded Note) and China (iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index) because those are economies of growth. I have heard that American [...]

A tax expert told me the following:
"Hank Paulson, the incoming Secretary of the Treasury, with a personal fortune of USD 700,000,000 has the right to benefit from a brand new tax exemption available only to those in government which is the right to sell all of his USD 700,000,000 of holdings and swap them into [...]

—I understand ETF means Index funds.They bet mostly based of trading index exchanges.
—I understand mutual fund meand they invest in different kinds of securiteis like stock funds, bond funds, mixed funds etc……..
—I do not understand hedge funds…..What is the primary difference between mutual funds & hedge funds?Hedge fund managers invest in what?What they do differently?Hedging [...]

—I understand ETF means Index funds.They bet mostly based of trading index exchanges.
—I understand mutual fund meand they invest in different kinds of securiteis like stock funds, bond funds, mixed funds etc……..
—I do not understand hedge funds…..What is the primary difference between mutual funds & hedge funds?Hedge fund managers invest in what?What they do differently?Hedging [...]