Top corporate executives often make large gifts of their company's stock to their family foundations shortly before the stock price drops sharply, according to a new study by a New York University professor. As a result, the executives are able to claim the maximum possible tax deduction and escape capital gains taxes. The research by David L. Yermack, a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, also found patterns to suggest that some gifts of stock might have been backdated to enhance th... lire la suite
Top corporate executives often make large gifts of their company's stock to their family foundations shortly before the stock price drops sharply, according to a new study by a New York University professor. As a result, the executives are able to claim the maximum possible tax deduction and escape capital gains taxes.
Grand Theft Auto Reviews Lift Take-Two’s Stock Above Bid Price
Source: b]MSNBC[/b] VIENNA, Austria - Oil prices are tumbling as traders dump the commodity amid concerns about the economy that are also driving the stock market sharply. Prices dropped more than $10 a barrel from highs earlier in the day, and are now down more than $6 from Monday's closing pr.
Washington | January 23 AP - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements ``were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.
With Video posted at end of story… Well, the AP has done it again. They have given us leftist propaganda and painted it as news. This time they have published the results of a "study" that claims that "Bush lied" in the run up to the actions in Iraq and somehow the AP forgot to mention that the organization that released this study was funded by the extreme leftist George Soros who has spent billions funding the Democrat Party and many far left think tank and advocacy organizations.
From the Associated Press: Retail gas prices rose further above a national average of $4 Monday, and are likely to keep rising as distributors and retailers hike prices in response to last week's unprecedented oil price rally. Oil futures, meanwhile, retreated as investors sold to lock in profits from the run-up, though oil prices may be headed even higher.
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Below we highlight the ratio of oil stocks to the price of oil. This ratio divides the price of oil into the price of the S&P 500 Oil&Gas sector that has been around since 1989. When the line is falling, oil is outperforming oil stocks (and vice versa for a rising line).
Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock. com, has popularized the notion that "naked shorts" are ruining Wall Street. In the process, though, he also popularized the notion that he was a paranoid nutjob — a reputation that he's hardly shed since the SEC issued new regulations governing the shady stock-trading practice.
David Merkel submits: I have lots of models, but I am only one person, so some of my models sit idle because I don’t have time to update them. Well, today, as I was reading Barron’s, I ran across the “Current Yield” column, and read this: THE STOCK MARKET IS PRICED FOR a recession, but the bond market is priced for a depression.
Study: False statements preceded war (AP)
Reuters - U. S. stocks fell sharply on Monday as credit concerns hounded financial stocks while global growth worries hurt big technology and industrial companies.
AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of economic and earnings reports and a further rise in oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points, or more than 1. percent.
Source: b]MSNBC[/b] NEW YORK - Volatility is again sweeping the financial markets, with investors growing more nervous while they wait for further word about the government's plan to buy $700 billion in banks' mortgage debt. Stocks finished down sharply; the Dow Jones industrials closed down about.
After getting creamed yesterday, stocks opened down a couple hundred points this morning in what has become a truly dismal bear-market recession scenario. There were more bad numbers this morning on leading economic indicators that are sinking, a terrible manufacturing report from the Philly Fed index, and a big spike up in jobless claims.
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AP - Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U. S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
The panic over the “recession” is entertaining and good for the U. S. economy. In the United States, we had a Martin Luther King holiday, while the rest of the world had a holiday from common sense. The various stock markets collapsed as investors turned into bears and enjoyed their biggest panic since 9/11.
AP - Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U. S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
Source: b]AP[/b] minutes ago WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.