Searching for the perfect penny stock can be very difficult especially if you are surrounded by corporations, 95% of which will fail in one way or the other. To help you to look for the best penny stocks that would provide you with the best investment returns, I have prepared this article that will tell [...]
One cannot truly understand the effect of insider trading if one does not analyze the effect of insider trading to both the big picture and to individual situations. It is very difficult to measure the effect of insider trading without putting on parameters to use in economic models that can measure the effect of insider [...]
In order to supposedly answer, or at least shed light, in the raging debate of legalizing or prohibiting insider trading, economists formulated economic models to see how insider trading positively or negatively affects the two sides of the economy. The two sides of the economy that the economists are focusing on are the aggregate economy [...]
Aside from the economic model of Manove that concludes that legalized insider trading would decrease the liquidity of the stock but increase the capital cost of the corporation and at the same time increase the informativesness of the stock price, other economists in their own models partially concurred to Manove’s findings. According to the economic [...]
On the other side of the insider trading debate are those scholars and economists that advocate for the continued prohibition and banning of insider trading. In previous articles I have discussed the theories that are proposed by this school of thought. In this article I will tackle the results of their economic models and their [...]
Offering employee stock options is the prevailing trend in the corporate world today with over 90% of Fortune 1000 corporations giving their employees stock options. There are three kinds of employee stock options: the Incentive Stock Option (ISO), the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and the Non-qualified Stock Option (NQSO). For purposes of this discussion, [...]
The growing focus of both the government, the academic community and the media on insider trading have renewed the public’s eye on insider trading and the debates and issues that go along with it. Insider trading incidents have been on the rise since the 1960′s and various amendments and additions to the current law have [...]
Understanding the United States stock market can be tricky, even frustrating at times. This is especially true when you encounter a lot of unfamiliar words that are frequently used but just doesn’t make sense. To help you understand a little more of the stock market, I have compiled a few of the basic jargon used [...]
The Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP), also known as Section 423 plans, is a kind of employee stock option (ESO) that obtains a favorable tax treatment from the government. Any ESO can be an ESPP provided that the ESO meets the restrictions and requirements set forth by Section 423 of the United States Internal Revenue [...]
If the United States Internal Revenue Code provides for tax benefits for employee stock options (ESOs) that follow the Internal Revenue Code’s requirements, then what happens to those ESOs that do not follow the Internal Revenue Code’s requirements and do not fall into either incentive stock options (ISOs) or employee purchase plans (ESPPs)? Are they [...]