Recently NYSE announced its plans to sell the majority of its stake in the Amex stock options market to seven companies which includes top banks, trading houses and brokerages.
In Japan, Goldman has taken a 43% share of Tokyo's electronic stock-options market by attaching Hull's complex pricing models to its own know-how.
My coverage ranges from the municipal and corporate bond markets to options trading in the stock market.
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As he was pondering his options, the October stock market crash came.
Stock options with an exercise price of fair market value or higher on the grant date qualified as cap-exempt performance-based compensation, while service-vested restricted stock did not.
Indexed options balance a company's relative stock market performance against its absolute gains.
There is only a 1% likelihood of the stock sinking that low, based on signals in the options market.
Two weeks into the April market, only one stock picker, the Options Tactician, still had 50% gains on his 11-week-old portfolio.
We are seeing evidence in the options market and in short-interest figures that suggests the big money players are returning to the stock market.
Options that start to pay out only after the stock market has fallen by at least 10% offer a better deal than those paying out immediately, he says.
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An option is a contract that allows investors to bet on a stock's direction, and as is typical for IPOs, options trading for Facebook began about a week after its stock-market debut.
It allows them to offer stock options to local employees, a boon in a drum-tight labor market.
In normal circumstances, a buy-back boosts earnings per share, making it easier for the company to meet market estimates and for its executives to profit from their stock options.
To the guardians of accounting principles, the best cure for wanton stock-options grants, which made billions of dollars for insiders before the market came crashing down, is to expense them.
The VIX An options-based measure of the forecast for volatility in the stock market, the VIX fell to a relatively low of 15 in April of 2010 and 2011, suggesting that investors may have become too complacent and risk being surprised by a negative event.
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Mr. Jackson's bet: that, because the strike price entitled an investor to own Kimberly-Clark shares at a price lower than the stock's current market price, the investor who bought the call options would exercise the contracts before the ex-dividend date to capture the company's 60 cent-a-share payout (recently increased to 66 cents).
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Even in the options market, the intention to short without being able to locate stock and borrow it is not something that should be allowed.
Driven by a desire to get bigger in the exploding options market, rival Nasdaq in 2007 struck deals to buy the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Stockholm-based OMX (this last deal is being done with Borse Dubai).
Indexed options work similarly to traditional stock options, with one exception: Rather than having the exercise price fixed at the market price on the date of grant, the exercise price varies based on the change in an appropriate stock market index, e.g.
Switching from plain vanilla to indexed stock options, in particular, focuses top executives on making their company outperform competitors and the market as a whole, which would better serve to align executive and shareholder interests.
The lingering concerns about the company's shares were aggravated by the options-market debut, which allows investors to bet on the future of the stock with less money at risk.
The Associated Press formula for determining an executive's total compensation calculates salary, bonuses, perquisites, above-market interest that the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year.
The AP formula calculates an executive's total compensation during the last fiscal year by adding salary, bonuses, perks, above-market interest that the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year.
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