Schaeffer’s Media Outtakes: An Elevated VIX Points to Continued Gains
In our Schaeffer’s Media Outtakes series, Bernie Schaeffer dissects the news, using contrarian analysis to provide a unique take on the market.”As stocks return to record levels, the smooth sailing that characterized stock trading at the end of 2006 and early 2007 isn’t likely to return, these traders are signaling by demanding considerably more for options on the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock
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Run of unsettling news ruins prospects for quiet day
`They call it stormy Monday," bluesman T-Bone Walker used to sing. The treasury-bond market was closed for Columbus Day, and stock trading volume was modest--but that doesn't mean things were quiet Monday on Wall Street.
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Capital One CEO Enters into Pre-Arranged Stock Trading Plan
Richard D. Fairbank, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF), today announced that he has adopted a pre-arranged stock trading plan (the "Plan") to exercise approximately 1.13 million options to purchase Capital One stock. Mr. Fairbank will only sell shares issued upon exercise of the options sufficient to cover the exercise price of the options,
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Is IPO trading getting riskier for execs?
Chief executives now need to be more careful with how they manage their personal stock portfolios, according to a report published Tuesday.
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