Groupon recently bought point-of-sale technology company Breadcrumbs and mobile payments startup Kima Labs.
Our buy point on the XAU index is 78.90; once it reaches that, I'll go long.
Otherwise, you might want to consider selling the stock or at least a portion of your position after it has moved 7% to 10% above its buy point for a quick profit.
"You need to buy points in order to get the best rates at many banks," Mr. González said.
(The company has chosen to emulate Microsoft's baffling Xbox "points" system, where you buy points with cash and then buy games with points. It works out to 500 points for $5, so why not just use currency?
Lagos addicts say they can buy "points" of crack cocaine for as little as 200 naira, or just over a dollar.
Ms. Doe's ultimate monthly expenditure could be mitigated if she buys points at closing; these reduce mortgage rates by a quarter of a percent per point.
Now, however, real estate investors are once again buying, pointing to strong job growth, a lower vacancy rate and higher rents as reasons for their moves.
Buyers now have the option of having floating weeks, split or fractional shares in properties or, more recently, buying points in resort clubs.
A bunch of timeshare resorts have pooled together, and your investment buys points that you can exchange for stays in any of them.
They can purchase additional points to get more time or a larger unit at that resort, and they can also buy points to use for visits to other Wyndham time-share resorts in places like Hawaii, the Caribbean and Mexico.
