For decades, covered call option selling has been a well-kept Wall Street secret used largely by savvy Hedge Fund managers. Today, no matter what your background, the online trading software in most brokerage accounts has made it possible for the retail investor to profit right along with the big boys.
Hundreds of Fortune 500 companies are reaping billions at the expense of Uncle Sam because of a legal tax break that critics claim defies "common sens...
Employee benefits packages include a few typical items. As you read through this list, consider what benefits are essential to keeping your family afloat and what benefits would be considered perks in your life?
FORTUNE – As Wall Street bonus season comes into full swing, UBS AG is the latest bank doing things differently to reel in excessive pay. On Tuesday...
Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson will be receiving stock options for a previously uncompensated corporate board position. ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Technology company Oracle Corp increased billionaire CEO Larry Ellison's compensation for last year by 24 percent. E...
Bloomberg View: Facebook Inc.'s IPO will create billions in new wealth for its founders, employees and investors. It will also save the company bil...
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein received total compensation of $16.1 million in 2011, a 14 percent increase from the year before. ...
Facebook's recent decision to go public may be a boon for the company in more ways than one. Facebook is structuring its initial public offering i...
Executive pay in the U. S. skyrocketed to reach an all time high in 2010. Looking ahead, we will likely find that the pay distance between executives and the rest of their organizations has gotten even greater.
You might be surprised to learn that more and more of the dollars you pay for coverage are being sucked into a kind of black hole. It doesn't really disappear, of course.
NEW YORK (Maria Aspan) - Citigroup Inc (C.N) has awarded Chief Executive Vikram Pandit a $16.7 million retention bonus, plus stock options -- a fa...
The insecurity of the middle class has a lot to do with how executives are paid. Bonuses pegged to stock prices encourage CEOs to mercilessly outsourc...
(AP) The 50 highest-paid CEOs for 2010 in an Associated Press analysis for Standard & Poor's 500 companies. The analysis includes companies that had t...
NEW YORK -- The CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. received a pay package in 2010 worth $18.7 million, a 4 percent dip from the year before, according to an ...
The extremely undervalued, large cap quality stock universe is finally showing signs of life. Since late November, value stocks have been outperformin...
The following are the ten CEOs who received the largest stock option grants in 2009. Together, they enjoyed gains which totaled $230 million based on ...
Volume in the U.S. has tripled since 2004 to a record 3.61 billion contracts in 2009, while trading by individual investors in the same period has inc...
Today's stock options often draw the public's ire for encouraging short term thinking and extreme risk taking on Wall Street. But it wasn't always this way.
Emergency food aid would be more effective if it were financed on a multi-year, cash basis -- rather than on a year-by-year, reactive basis -- using forward contracts, call options, or other instruments available on futures markets.
NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley is considering the way it compensates its top executives, looking to defer more pay and benchmark salaries against riv...
BOSTON — Wells Fargo & Co.'s four top executives won't get cash bonuses for 2009, but are receiving performance-based stock awards currently wor...
The defenders of Wall Street pay usually rely on a rather familiar argument. It goes something like this: CEOs demand millions because they deliver pr...
Few could argue with Barack Obama last week when the US president said Wall Street owed a debt of gratitude to taxpayers. Some of America's largest ba...
The insurance industry has shifted to selling so-called "consumer-driven" plans with very high deductibles that shift a great deal of health care cost from employers and insurers to individuals.
