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Bertha Heyman was a 19th-century American criminal, also known as “Big Bertha” and the “Confidence Queen.” She was described by famed New York City detective Thomas F. Byrnes as “one of the smartest confidence women in America,” and was considered by the New York City police to be “the boldest ... Read More
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1990: $.56/Share 2011: $25.32/Share
Maxim Integrated Products is a publicly traded company that designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products. Maxim developed integrated circuits (ICs) for the industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (USA), Maxim has design centers, manufacturing facilities, and sales offices throughout ... Read More
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Frankfurt Listings 101
In the past few years more than 3,200 United States companies have obtained listings on the FSE (“FSE”). The FSE is owned and operated by Deutsche Börse, which also owns the clearing company Clearstream. The FSE is the largest stock exchange in Germany and boasts a share ... Read More
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By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011
October 4, 2011
For this week, I looked at the financial stocks. No one loves them except maybe the value investor Warren Buffett. He owns a chunk of Goldman Sacks (GS) and recently bought a chunk of Bank of America. Did you know ... Read More
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Excerpt from Graham Bowley | Published October 8, 2011 | NYTIMES.COM
Regulators in the United States and overseas are cracking down on computerized high-speed trading that crowds today’s stock exchanges, worried that as it spreads around the globe it is making market swings worse.
The cost of these high-frequency traders, critics say, ... Read More
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By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011
October 18, 2011
The request to set an option program for this security came from one of our readers. The reader had previously bought the stock below $40, sold a call at $46 and it was called away when it reached $50. The ... Read More
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By: David T. Shaheen, Esq. - Partner, Burk & Reedy, LLP
Self-Filing To Become Public
If the objective of your company is to be public and you are not large enough to attract a big-time Wall Street underwriter for a traditional IPO, you need to consider the significant benefits of a ... Read More
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Going Public Methods
The creation of publicly traded securities has created more millionaires than any other venture. Even in a down economy companies seek the benefits of being publicly. While there are a variety of ways to become publicly traded each has its own unique requirements and risks.
Initial Public Offering ... Read More
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By Warren Kaplan
The Stock Option Writer
© Warren Kaplan 2011
October 25, 2011
This is a medical products company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of our readers asked me to look into the company and to come up with an option writing strategy. I did not research the company as I let my ... Read More
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( We All Better hope and pray this never passes)
Can we understand that it is not how our government was originally structured but how the politicians, lawyers, progressive movement, etc have helped changed the way we look at our Constitution AND taxation, etc. It may be called a fee ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Chris Vermeulen and J.W. Jones | Published November 7, 2011 | resourceinvestor.com
With all eyes on the unemployment report and Europe, the CME Group’s PR Department nearly created an all out panic with their announcement after the market close on Friday relating to futures maintenance ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Michael Santoli | November 5, 2011 | Online.barrons.com
It's entirely understandable that our markets are twitching on receipt of each dispatch from Athens or Cannes or Brussels, or any other Old World spot where government emissaries and central bankers are debating what might be done, ... Read More
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