US stock markets remained bullish on Thursday on decision of Federal Reserve to buy Treasuries which will stimulate the sluggish economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA surged 1.6% or 181points to close at 11,369 levels. DJIA reached its highest level since September 2008. In September 2008 the DJIA touched its fell considerably on bankruptcy [...]
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. (AMEX: CPD) witnessed the correction of 7.56% and closed at $4.40 whereas overall traded volume stood at 96,996 shares for the day. Its price to earnings ratio stands at 110 times. However the RSI value shows that share price is at its oversold level with relative strength index of 27.03 times. [...]
As you may have heard, employee stock options may either be Incentive Stock Options (ISO), Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) or Non-qualified Stock Options (NQSO). You may be wondering how ISOs, ESPPs and NQSOs are different. Why do employers give different kinds of employee stock options? What are the benefits of each? To help you [...]
You may still be trying to figure out what exactly stock options are and how they are valuable to you. May be you have started reading up and researching how stock options can best fit your investment plans. May be you are still confused with what stock options are and what stocks are. If you [...]
One cannot truly appreciate the whole picture without looking at the different angles of that picture. In the same way, one cannot truly comprehend the insider trading debate without studying its effects on the aggregate economy and on the individual actors that are involved therein. In previous articles I have discussed the arguments for and [...]
Insider trading is probably one of the most controversial issues that plague the stock market, and other securities market, today. Even those that are not really buyers and sellers of stocks and other securities have heard of insider trading and are familiar, to some extent, with insider trading. Hollywood has made a spectacle of insider [...]
One does not truly appreciate the impact of insider trading to the economic landscape as well as the trading behavior of those involved in the securities market if one does not look into the actors that could possibly be affected by insider trading laws. All of us can probably imagine who gets affected now that [...]
When one talks of insider trading one usually refers to the activity whereby the insiders buy and sell securities based on the information they obtained as an employee. With this definition of insider trading springs forth the definition of insiders. Insiders are commonly perceived to be those employees of the corporation that have access to [...]
The foremost legal basis and the most cited legislative act that is supposed to declare insider trading as unlawful is the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. The Act not only established the Securities and Exchange Commission it also declared illegal any action that uses manipulative or deceptive devices that are connected to securities trading [...]
Have you ever wondered how stock exchanges work? I mean have you ever asked yourself how millions of different stocks that have millions of buyers and sellers trading probably thousands or even millions of shares of stock that have varying bids and asks find their way with one another with the bids and asks matching [...]