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- 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
- Swaps For Pre-1984 Stock
- Investors with appreciated securities often wish to hedge - either to protect their gains and try to gather additional profits or to diversify without having to pay a large capital gains tax. An analysis shows that for stock purchased before 1984, the best hedge involves a swap with an embedded...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Put-Call Parity and Arbitrage Opportunity
- An important principle in options pricing is called put-call parity. It says that the value of a call option at one strike price implies a certain fair value for the corresponding put, and vice versa. The argument for this pricing relationship relies on the arbitrage opportunity that results if there...
- White papers 2005-01-19
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- Covered Calls: No Free Lunch
- Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Options are contracts that give their owners the right but not the obligation to buy calls or sell puts securities at a predetermined price strike at a predetermined period in the future. If an investor is bullish on Microsoft MSFT when the stock is trading at $20/share,...
- External links 2009-10-16
- Tuesday Options Update: UNG, WYE, XLF, GE, AAPL, MRVL, FNM, MCRS, CLNE, CAKE,
- Rebecca Engmann Darst contributed to this report. US Natural Gas Fund UNG – Here’s a trade that stuck out like a sore thumb to us today. We saw 16,000 call options in the April series trade at the 70 strike for a premium of 0.90. The volume represents 5% of...
- External links 2008-08-26
- NYMEX & The Green Exchange: Good Start, Long Ways to Go
- The Green Exchange announced last week the opening week volume for the first ever exchange-traded options contracts for carbon offsets. During the April 21-25 trade week, counterparties transacted 1,150 certified emissions reduction options contracts. One contract is the equivalent of 1,000 CERs (or 1,000 tons of CO2-equivalent reductions), making the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- FAS 123R: accounting for stock options; Tips for an increasingly complex task
- With apologies to Baskin-Robbins, stock options seem to be available in at least 31 flavors. Consider the following varieties: premium options strike price above grant date stock price; purchased options employee pays a fraction of the strike price at grant; indexed options strike price varies based upon an index; and...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Fiat SpA Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, today's question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question today comes from Massimo Vecchio of Mediobanca. Please go ahead. Massimo Vecchio - Mediobanca Securities Good afternoon to everybody. I have a question on Fiat...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Stock Option Repricing: Employees Benefit But What About Investors?
- The article is about the effect of Stock Option Repricing on Employee Turnover. Stock options are basically a promise made by a company to offer a number of its shares at a set price, for a set period of time. If the stock price rises to a level above that...
- White papers 2003-04-09
- Palabora weathers strike.(Palabora Mining Co.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Despite a 24-day strike and the lacklustre international price of copper, South African-based Palabora Mining Co., owned 46% by Rio Tinto plc, achieved a 71% increase in interim earnings for the period to June 30, 2001. Palabora made a net profit of Despite a 24-day...
- Research articles 2001-07-27
- Talks stall as oil-rich Nigeria heads closer to all-out strike
- ABUJA AFP — Talks between the Nigerian government and trade unions broke down, leaving the country on the brink of a fuel price strike which could force up already soaring world oil prices. The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC has warned that its members will stage a general strike from...
- Research articles 2004-10-06
- Defiant unions threaten to prolong Nigerian fuel price strike
- LAGOS AFP — Defiant Nigerian union leaders threatened to prolong a nationwide general strike and warned President Olusegun Obasanjo's government not to use strong-arm tactics to break their movement's will. The Nigeria Labour Congress had planned to end their "warning strike" on Thursday to allow the government time to...
- Research articles 2004-10-12
- Obasanjo orders cuts in price of cooking fuel as Nigerian strike looms
- ABUJA AFP — In a bid to calm a rising tide of public anger ahead of a threatened general strike, President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered Nigeria's state oil firm to cut the price of kerosene cooking fuel. Labour unions and civil society groups have vowed to bring Africa's most populous...
- Research articles 2004-11-12
- Revisiting Goldman Sachs Options
- Dr. Duru submits: Last week, I laid out the case for making a Buffett-like bet on Goldman Sachs GS using LEAP (Long-term Equity Anticipation) options, but decided to stay on the sidelines personally. This past Tuesday, I decided to check in on the action in Goldman and noticed exceptionally...
- External links 2008-11-28
- Broadcasters balk at admission price: strike virtually kills upfront, clouds rights picture. (baseball strike)((includes table showing baseball teams and rightsholders))
- Strike virtually kills upfront, clouds rights picture There is no joy in the offices of Mudville rightsholders. If not for the strike, the value of local television and radio rights for the Major League Baseball teams would almost certainly have ...
- Research articles 1995-03-27
- Evans Bancorp Inc. The Wall Street Analyst Forum Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionUnidentified Analyst Question Inaudible David Nasca Okay. Unidentified Analyst Question Inaudible David Nasca Okay. Let me restate the question for the folks around the webcast. The strike price for the warrant is the trailing 20-day average stock price. You're going to be approved, for example, we'll get notification...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-17
- Google's Stock Option Repricing: Investors, Just Get Over It!
- Bill Gurley submits: Prominent finance publications like the WSJ and the Motley Fool along with several bloggers have recently taken shots at Google GOOG with respect to their decision to re-price a boat-load of employee stock options. Just to review the details, in their last earnings call Google...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Air New Zealand pilots plan to stage a strike.
- Jul 04, 2002 The Asian Wall Street Journal ABIX via COMTEX -- A strike is being planned by pilots of Air New Zealand in July 2002. The share price of Air New Zealand decreased by 1.5 to $NZ0.64 on 2 July 2002. Air New Zealand...
- Research articles 2002-07-04
- Strike Three, But Is The Satellite Industry Out?(Company Financial Information)
- If Iridium LLC's failure was strike one, and the plunge in Globalstar LP's stock price was strike two, then Orbcomm's bankruptcy reorganization might be seen as strike three in a sector that some believe should now be declared out. Enthusiasm for creating...
- Research articles 2000-09-25
- Postal strike is no excuse for filing a late tax return
- HM Revenue & Customs HMRC is urging taxpayers who had been planning to submit their tax return by post to deliver it by hand to their nearest tax office to ensure it arrives on time. HMRC has refused to waive the October 31 deadline for postal tax returns, despite intermittent...
- News items 2009-10-23
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