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UnitedHealth Lowers Outlook, Settles Suit: NEW YORK (Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group UNH on Wednesday cut its full-year earnings outlook because of tough competition in the health benefits business. The health insurer forecast earnings per share of $2.95 to $3.05 before special items, down from an earlier outlook of...; Tags: Stock options, Benefits, Investment, Financial accounting, UnitedHealth Group Inc., stock option, insurance company, settlement, compensation, SEC, stock, CEO, health care, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, shareholder; News items 2008-07-02
Daimler Resumes Share Buybacks, Shares Rise: FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler AG will resume share buybacks after a temporary pause, the German carmaker said, outlining plans to spend up to 6 billion euros ($9.31 billion) to repurchase 10 percent of its stock. Shares bought back by April 8, 2009 --...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Financial services, buyback, Daimler AG, carmaker, pause, Frankfurt, capital structure, Thomson Reuters Corp., stock, derivatives, financial market, stock option, messaging, equity, shareholder, financial, chip; News items 2008-06-17
Derivatives - Futures: A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell some commodity at a fixed price on a fixed date. In other words, it is a contract between two parties; the holder of the future has not only the right but also the obligation to buy or sell the specified...; Tags: Investment, derivatives, stock, stock option, agreement; White papers
Stock Option Expiration Cycles: Understanding what expiration months are available for stocks: Deciding to trade a stock option requires choosing an expiration month. Because option strategies require making modifications during the life of a trade, you need to know what months the options will expire in the future. The expiration month you choose will have a significant impact on the potential success...; Tags: Investment, Stock options, Equade Internet, stock option, stock; White papers
The Key Issues in the Debate on Expensing Stock Options: There are many issues surrounding the debate over whether or not employee stock options should be expensed for company financial reports. This debate is now heating up and it could have some serious repercussions that extend beyond accounting practices. Investors need to be aware of some of the key issues...; Tags: Stock Options & Grants, Stock options, Benefits, Investment, Financial accounting, Equade Internet, employee stock option, stock option, accounting, stock; White papers

Stock Options and Reserve Errors: Stock options create an incentive for managers of companies to maximize the value of their company's stock. The current study tests whether the awarding of stock options to insurance company executives is associated with the accuracy of reserve estimates. We test two competing hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that the...; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock option, hypothesis, insurance company, stock, incentive, insurance; White papers
Broadcom Ex-CEO Pleads Not Guilty in Criminal Cases: SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - Former Broadcom Corp BRCM Chief Executive Henry Nicholas III pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from an alleged stock options backdating conspiracy and to federal drug charges. The technology company's former chief financial officer, ...; Tags: Stock options, Federal government, Benefits, Investment, Broadcom Corp., Los Angeles, stock option, FBI, attorney, backdating, civil lawsuit, networking gear, beverage, Thomson Reuters Corp., women, CEO, U.S., agent, accounting, cell phone, stock, video, mobile, phone, network; News items 2008-06-16
Hubris Reaches New Highs: It had seemed that hubristic executives were, like, so 1990s. Maybe not. Consider high-flying executive Henry T. Nicholas III, former Broadcom Corp. CEO, who was already in trouble for allegedly backdating stock options. Now a federal court in Santa Ana, Calf., has unsealed indictments against Nicholas accusing...; Tags: Real estate, Peter Galuszka, Calf; Blog posts 2008-06-09
The CEO Pay Gap Widens: Talk about pay inequities. If you are a CEO at a small to middle-sized firm you probably got a puny 2 percent pay raise last year. Yet if you were a big shot at a Standard & Poors 500 firm, you fared a heck of a lot...; Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Investment, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Google Board Member Targeted by SEC: Google director Ann Mather is facing civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection to an options backdating scandal at Pixar, where Mather used to be CFO from 1999 to 2004. In Google's filing, the company disclosed: On April 23, 2008, Ann was advised...; Tags: Google Inc., Board, SEC, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Director, Stock Options, Corporate Governance, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Should I Exercise My "In-The-Money" Stock Options?: When your employee stock options are "In-the-money" (that is, the stock price is greater than your grant price), you can choose one of three basic sell strategies: Exercise your options, then hold the stock for sale at a later date exercise and hold; hold your options and exercise them later...; Tags: Investment, Stock Options & Grants, Stock options, Benefits, Financial accounting, Yahoo! Inc., employee stock option, stock, stock option, stock price, strategy, tool; Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Annual Stock Option Grants: Many companies issue annual stock option grants to their employees. Receiving a stream of stock options over a period of years can be an incredible benefit. Use this tool to project how much a series of annual stock option grants could be worth to you.; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock option, stock, benefit, tool; Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Stock Option Calculator: Receiving options for your company's stock can be an incredible benefit. Even after a few years of moderate growth, stock options can produce a handsome return. Use this tool to determine the value of your stock options for the next one to twenty-five years.; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock option, stock, benefit, tool; Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say: We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-12-17
The Unintended Consequences of Stock Options: Stock options are designed to encourage executives to focus on the needs of the shareholder. Giving the CEO a stake in the company's market performance sounds like an elegant and effective way to make sure his or her attention is in the right place. But a study from management professors...; Tags: Investment, Stock options, Financial accounting, Jessica Stillman, stock, stock option, strike price; Blog posts 2007-11-14
Options Pricing Of Dynamic Strategies: Managers responsible for capital investment decision making need valuation models that can navigate both corporate finance and competitive strategy to generate well-grounded prices. Real options provide the firm with flexibility to adapt to changes in its environment. The dynamic nature of real options in the new economy makes them more...; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, Carnegie-Mellon University, stock option, competitive strategy, valuation, stock, finance, asset, strategy, environment, security; White papers 2006-03-01
BNET Daily Dispatch: Take-Two, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, and Retail Theft: The SEC opened an investigation yesterday into Take-Two Interactive Software, maker of the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, over its past stock-option grants practices. In February, Take-Two's CEO pled guilty to criminal charges over backdating options, and became the first ex-CEO to do so. Take-Two said reviews of its...; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Financial accounting, Andrew Hines, Telecom Italia, Barnes & Noble Inc., AT&T Corp.; Blog posts 2007-04-05
BNET Daily Dispatch: Tribune, Xerox, KKR, and Starwood Hotels: The Tribune Co. said today it accepted real estate magnate Sam Zell's bid to take the company private, and it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs after the 2007 baseball season. The deal values Tribune, publisher of Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, at around $8.2 billion and is structured...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Joseph De Avila, Tribune Co., Xerox Corp., Starwood Hotels; Blog posts 2007-04-02
BNET Dispatch: March 19, 2007: Airbus' A380 superjumbo jet, the world's largest passenger plane, made its U.S. debut today, as two of the jets landed in New York and Los Angeles. Airbus designed the aircraft to challenge Boeing's command in the large plane market. But due to several delays, Airbus has suffered billion dollars of...; Tags: Stock options, Benefits, Investment, Financial accounting, HEALTHCARE, Joseph De Avila, Airbus, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Disney Corp., stock option, Steve Jobs, stock; Blog posts 2007-03-19
BNET Dispatch: March 5, 2007: With daylights savings time starting three weeks early this year, companies are scrambling to reset their hardware and software systems to sync up with the time change. The new changes are causing IT headaches reminiscent of the Y2K bug in 2000, and may impact data-centers, desktop computers, and...; Tags: Handhelds, Desktops, Investment, Financial accounting, Joseph De Avila, Ford Motor Co., Jim Balsillie, Aston Martin; Blog posts 2007-03-05