Word: sharing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...America, that so many share your self-indulgent mindset. Yet there is hope, because millions want to hear what she is saying because truth resonates...
...producing assets that Messier's distribution channels thirsted for. Talks between the two men heated up in January following word of the AOL-Time Warner deal. But the discussions nearly collapsed last spring, before both companies settled on a stock swap that would value Seagram at about $75 a share--a roughly $25 premium above its recent price...
...reunion tour with the last of 10 sold-out Garden shows. Fearing serious withdrawal, I consulted relationship guru Pepper Schwartz, author of the forthcoming book Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong. "If Bruce is just one thing among a lot of other important things that you share," she said, "you'll handle this loss the same way you've handled other losses." (I didn't dare tell her about our beloved cat Clarence--named for Bruce's saxophonist, Clarence ("Big Man") Clemons. Seven years after our pet's death, his ashes are still...
...grants the right to sell at a preset time and price. These tools make it easy and cheap--and treacherous--to bet on near-term swings in a stock price. Consider: today you can buy a call option for about $600 that gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Oracle in mid-July at $85 a share. Oracle is now trading at about $81. Say the stock soars to $91, a full 6 points above the strike price. The gambler's profit is $600, or double his investment. Had he bought the stock instead of the option...
Here's how: an October put option giving you the right to sell at $70--about where Microsoft currently trades--costs $5 a share. If the stock swoons, you still get to sell at $70. For that right you give up the next 5 points of gain but capture everything beyond that. A similar strategy can bridge you to the point at which you've held a high-flyer 12 months, qualifying for favorable capital-gains-tax treatment. "It puts a floor under your wealth," says Lee Reid, head of retail options at A.G. Edwards...