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- Best Funds for a Fast-Changing Market
- No strategy works for long in this crazy market. So you want your money in a fund nimble enough to go anywhere and invest in anything at any time — like one of these. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
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- Options-driven rally likely if oil prices move above $80
- Oil prices face further upward pressure as they near $80 a barrel because of heavy trading in options contracts ahead of the year end, brokers and analysts said. A large number of call options - contracts giving holders the right to buy crude oil at a predetermined price - have...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Google Launches Options Exchange Plan to Retain Talent
- Google's Board of Directors approved and the company announced a new "employee options exchange program" today. The company filed the requisite 8-K with the SEC and also detailed the plan on its blog: "Recognizing that about 85% of our employees have at least some...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Google Tackles Its "UI Jazz" Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature
- Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google's Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it's all because Google's vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer...
- News items 2009-11-19
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Buying the Options Trading Market with OptionsXpress
- Ockham Research submits: “More and more people are trading options. Ordinary investors just like you. Back on September 8th I interviewed the CEO of OptionsXpress, OXPS. With the stock at $16.94. Now after reporting a genuine up side surprise today, the stock’s at $17.84, up 5.3% from where I...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Weighing Your Career-Break Options
- If you're thinking of taking a break from your job or career, you'd be well advised to do some advance planning. As with most things in life, you will get the most out of this endeavor if you give it careful consideration. While some career breaks are dictated by circumstance—such...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Expensing Stock Options Or Not: Does It Matter?
- Fixed stock options are given to executives as compensation for services rendered. Granting stock options, however, entails no outflows, use of assets, or incurring of liabilities. When executives exercise options, they pay cash and the company issues common stock. When stock options expire without being exercised, there is no change...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The NASDAQ Options Market Joins The Options Industry Council
- The NASDAQ Options Market has become a member of The Options Industry Council OIC. The NASDAQ Options Market joins the member firms and other exchanges of OIC (American Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NYSE Arca, Philadelphia Stock Exchange and The Options Clearing Corporation) in helping to...
- Research articles 2008-05-02
- Using Options to Control the Risks of Leveraged ETFs
- Bill Luby submits: Several readers noted that options on leveraged ETFs seemed like a recipe for disaster, as if no good could possibly come from piling leverage on top of leverage. While I certainly understand the sentiment, this type of thinking is typical of investors who have little or...
- External links 2009-05-27
- The Trouble with Stock Options
- The trouble with options is that too many options are granted to too many people. Most options are granted below the top-executive level, and options are often an inefficient way to attract, retain and motivate executives and especially loiter-level employees. Why, then, are options so prevalent? This paper discusses several...
- White papers 2003-06-17
- Sending Out an SOS Methods for Companies to Resuscitate Underwater Stock Options
- Stock options have been considered the darling of corporate compensation vehicles for many years. Besides delivering tremendous value to employees, there are two primary reasons why employers have favored them. On a philosophical level, stock options are ideal for aligning employees' compensation and shareholders' interests. If the option exercise price...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Considering Stock Options? Break Out the Scuba Gear
- Talk about soggy. Stock options, the once-popular ways of rewarding top executives and keeping well-performing employees engaged, are in the soup. Declining stock prices have made 40 percent of all stock options just about valueless since many companies' stock prices have sunk below the exercise price on...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Chicago Board Options Exchange to Trade Options on Uranerz Energy Corporation.
- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Apr 17, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Uranerz Energy Corporation (AMEX:URZ)(FRANKFURT:U9E) is pleased to announce that the Chicago Board Options ExchangeR ("CBOE") has launched trading in options (derivatives: puts and calls) on the equity securities of Uranerz Energy Corporation. The Chicago...
- Research articles 2007-04-17
- Learn about options from The Options Institute
- Courses and seminars are offered to investors interested in trading options The Options Institute is the education arm of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Created in 1985, the focus of the Options Institute is to expand the knowledge and thereby increase the comfort level of options users. The Institute...
- Research articles 1998-02-01
- Weighing Your Options.
- This article shows that stock options have become standard fare in many companies' compensation packages—and not just for senior management. Receiving stock options has become common for thousands of employees, especially those in high-tech startups. For companies, the appeal is that stock options need not be charged as expenses to...
- Case studies 2002-11-01
- Stock Options/Profit Sharing - Giving Everyone A Piece Of The Pie
- The article points that often used as a tool to retain employees, stock options have a growing appeal in today's job market. Depending on the business and industry, stock options can be a very valuable and enticing benefit to offer employees and potential employees. There are three classes of stock...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Major League Baseball Player Contracts: An Investigation of the Empirical Properties of Real Options
- This paper studies the contracts negotiated between professional baseball players and teams to investigate the use of real options in a commercial setting. Baseball contracts feature options in diverse forms, and we find that these options have significant effects on player compensation. As predicted by theory, players receive higher guaranteed...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- When a Buyback Isn't a Buyback: Open Market Repurchases and Employee Options
- This paper examines how stock options affect the decision to repurchase shares. Firms announce repurchases when executives have large numbers of options outstanding and when employees have large numbers of options currently exercisable. Once the decision to repurchase is made, the amount repurchased is positively related to total options exercisable...
- White papers 2001-06-06
- The "True" Cost of Stock Options
- How to value Employee Stock Options ESO? This is possibly the central issue in the debate on whether these options should be expensed. According to basic accounting rules, if a value can be placed on this form of compensation, it should be expensed. Proponents of expensing employee stock options say...
- White papers 2003-12-03
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