Sentences with phrase «worthless stocks in»

Management would walk away with its $ 3 million cash windfall; shareholders would get stuck with potentially worthless stock in a merged company.

Not exact matches

We're back in a frothy market where in stead of being considered that they might be spending tons of money winning shares a company that one day could be worthless (like the stock of many startup companies)-- they always believe they're fighting for millions.

Enron's collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $ 2 billion in employee pensions and rendered worthless $ 60 billion in Enron stock.

Senior executives at China's Big Four state - owned banks say regulators are also exploring ways for banks to exchange bad loans for equity in certain too - big - to - fail companies — a potentially controversial step that they say could saddle banks with near - worthless stock and squeeze their liquidity.

I liken die hard believers in this nonsense ideology to someone who invested all his money in worthless stocks.

Imagine what happens, when the dollar collapses, and everyone with an account in the Cayman Islands, is STUCK with worthless paper and stocks?

Furthermore, «predictions» in any ancient book are worthless unless they can name SPECIFIC future events, names, scores at sporting events, when to sell or buy stocks, etc., which your worthless tome of a bible certainly DOES NOT!!!

T - Mobile thought it was okay to change my order to one of the worthless Curves they already have in stock, (which they realize they will have a lot of trouble selling for even 50 bucks at this point) and decide to send me this, charge me 99.99 with a $ 50 mail in rebate... because they are «temporarily out of stock».

When Enron, a huge energy company, had it's share price go from above $ 90.00 to less than a dollar before the company's eventual bankruptcy, the owners of Enron common stock faced the potential of receiving nothing in return for their worthless shares.

That means that (1) you receive $ 15 / share in cash today, and (2) in 2 months time you will either lose your stock at $ 90 (plus the $ 15 you got today, for a total of $ 105 / share), buy back the call options (and perhaps sell others), or keep your stock and have the options expire worthless (if the stock is below $ 90 on option expiration day).

All stock pickers make mistakes, and sooner or later they make a really big one, investing in a stock that becomes completely worthless.

Quick review (if you need a longer explaination, see the covered call tutorial): (1) you need 100 shares of stock or ETF, (2) you then sell 1 call option (because options control 100 shares) against the stock / ETF you own, and then (3) at expiration you may end up having your stock called away (and receive cash) or you may end up owning your stock and having the call option expire worthless (in which case you can sell another call for the next cycle).

The answer is that you're allowed to claim the loss in the year the stock became worthless — but only under a strict rule that poses problems for many taxpayers.

When the option expires you may end up having your stock called away (and receive cash) or you could end up owning your stock and having the call option expire worthless (in which case you can sell another call for the next cycle).

Over the next six months, if the stock never increases to $ 52, the call options will expire worthless: you get to keep your shares in BigBank, any dividends the company paid, and the $ 1,200 premium.

As a company employee who was being granted stock options each year, it wasn't at all uncommon for people to sit around the water cooler and lament that fact that each year, we get these options that only expire worthless a few years later because the firm was in a continual state of share price decline.

Owning calls fixes the price where a security can be purchased, so they can ratchet up in value when a stock rallies or expire worthless if no move occurs.

Just for fun, let's also assume we know ahead of time that one of the stocks in Mr. Jones's portfolio is going to go bankrupt (that is, decline until it becomes worthless) sometime within the next year.

As such, the concept of a stop doesn't pair well with the entry as whatever level you choose, the stock may not have bottomed yet (in a short term sense) until it becomes so large as to be worthless.

Stock - centric investors such as Warren Buffett think it's a worthless «pet rock» that fails to appreciate in value.

In this example, the investor is hoping that Intel \'s stock price will appreciate, and that the short put option will expire worthless in 180 days, leaving the long put option in place as a hedge for the next 360 dayIn this example, the investor is hoping that Intel \'s stock price will appreciate, and that the short put option will expire worthless in 180 days, leaving the long put option in place as a hedge for the next 360 dayin 180 days, leaving the long put option in place as a hedge for the next 360 dayin place as a hedge for the next 360 days.

Assuming the stock remains above $ 13 and the puts expire worthless, our $ 36 profit represents a 2.8 % return over the $ 1,264 in capital set aside.

If a company declares bankruptcy then the publicly traded shares of stock in that company become worthless.

They did not just avoid the area (don't invest in thrifts or banks, don't invest in home building stocks, don't invest in mortgage guaranty insurers) but found vehicles to invest in that would go up as the housing market bubble burst and the mortgages became worthless.

All I meant by «making good picks» is that I follow a lot of things in depth that directly pertain to stocks and I know if a stock is worthless or if it's going to be bad just because dealing with it daily.

If the stock falls in between those prices, both contracts expire worthless.

If everything expires worthless, you walk away with your stock in your hand.

Worthless tulip bulbs, internet stocks, and so on, have generated incredible returns in periods of time that Buffett was never able to match.

That said, I am no longer interested in this stock and I will do all it takes to let the put option expire worthless.

If this expires worthless in 1 weeks, this will generate a 2.5 % yield at the current stock value.

In addition, a warrant is worthless if the market price of the common stock does not exceed the warrant's exercise price during the life of the warrant.

In a pump and dump scam, the bad guys load up on a cheap and worthless stock, convince inexperienced investors to buy it at inflated prices (pump), and sell their shares off when the investors push the price up enough (dump).

The recent string of downloadable game pre-orders that have run in the Playstation Store were ostensibly worthless, allowing would - be buyers to give their money in advance for digital items that are inherently incapable of going out of stock, and typically offering something as trifling as an XMB theme in return for early payment.

The stocks were often used as fodder for «pump - and - dump» schemes, where stock brokers dupe their clients to buy shares in shell companies, raising the price of the stock, before the initial shareholders would sell off their shares for a profit, leaving the shares worthless.

The jury awards Perelman — who had sued Morgan over its role in his sale of Coleman to Sunbeam for stock that became worthless after an accounting scandal led to bankruptcy — $ 1.45 billion in damages.

Now, it's true that at the peak of the bubble, the naive stocked up worthless investments but those who invested in, say, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) are today sitting on a jackpot.