The tricksters then permanently divert the number to a local rate call and scoop up the difference between the premium rate and the local call.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
It so happens that markets already provide this information, in the form of the premium of a call option on the company's share-price.
Cue bipartisan congressional opposition and industry scare ads urging customers to call their representatives to avert premium hikes and cuts in covered services.
Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return of 12.09% if the stock gets called away at the July expiration (before broker commissions).
Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 3.80% boost of extra return to the investor, or 22.75% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return of 17.87% if the stock gets called away at the July expiration (before broker commissions).
Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 8.85% boost of extra return to the investor, or 52.95% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
Should the covered call contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 3.73% boost of extra return to the investor, or 22.32% annualized, which we refer to as the YieldBoost.
Considering the call seller will also collect the premium, that would drive a total return of 4.74% if the stock gets called away at the July expiration (before broker commissions).
Market-based notes and bonds purchased at premium will be amortized to call date.
Call sellers at these strikes keep the premium received on the transaction as long as shares fail to rebound above the strike prices described through August expiration.
Schutz also figures the bosses at Cowen and Gleacher may decide to call it quits and cash in for a premium.
We noticed frenzied options activity as investors reaped what premium they could from fast-falling call options.
Given the steady demand for index and ETF put options that have accompanied the rally, put premiums have risen considerably relative to call premiums, driving the VIX to a substantial premium relative to SPX historical volatility.
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The reason this is a good time frame is that it gives you enough time so that if the stock price moves toward the strike price of the put early on, the call will likely retain a good portion of its premium and vice versa, which allows expansion of the spread and potential profit.
In the case of the oil company, for instance, the cost of land corresponds to the premium (or down-payment) on a call option, and the extra investment needed to start production to its strike price (at which the option is exercised).
As with a short call, when you go short a put, you collect the premium on the option as a credit in your account.
But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
However, I do suspect that there is a liquidity an extra liquidity premium being priced into Treasuries and that this is what I would call a bubble.
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