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Stock Options For Laid-off Amazon Employees
News The Seattle-based company said it is setting up a trust fund of $2.5m worth of stock for laid-off employees. The fund will hold the stock until mid-2003, when it will be sold and distributed to dismissed workers.
[January 31, 2001, 10:50]
Stock Exchanges Joust For Tech Companies
News When Sybase decided it didn't want its stock price jumping around so much, it moved from the Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange. Specialists are trained to maintain order in trading and smooth out large swings in a stock prices.
[May 29, 2001, 9:03]
Stock Ticker Application Bar
Downloads Stock Ticker displayes stock quotes right on your desktop. This thin bar docks to the top or bottom or your screen and shows stock quotes and price changes as a scrolling line, just like an original old-fasioned stock ticker tape.
[March 23, 2008, 1:01]
Stock-swap Programme Costs Microsoft Millions
News Hit with a stock-option transfer programme and higher payroll costs, Microsoft's server and tools business posted a hefty operating loss in the December quarter. In January, Microsoft reported earnings that topped expectations, excluding...
[February 9, 2004, 9:25]
Stock Watch: Comverse, Informix, Lockheed Martin, V-One And Yahoo!
News The stock peaked at 54 3/16 last December before falling to a 52-week low of 16 3/8 in November. Expect V-One shares to plummet Wednesday after its stock surged 279 percent to an all-time high of 13 1/2 after it announced a virtual private network...
[December 1, 1999, 12:10]
Legal Woes, Stock Drop Mar Rambus' Future
News Memory-chip designer Rambus reported a small profit on Thursday, but that is the highlight of an otherwise rocky three months, scarred by a sliding stock price and landmark legal defeats. The setbacks have already been reflected in Rambus' stock...
[July 13, 2001, 15:14]
Update: Stock Market Glitch Resolved, Trading Resumes
News Serious technical difficulties at London's stock exchange were resolved mid-afternoon Wednesday, enabling market trading to resume after a day of inactivity on what should have been one of the market's busiest days of the year.
[April 5, 2000, 15:40]
LetsBuyIt.com Stock Crashes As Trading Resumes
News The company's stock dropped 70 percent to 0.40 euros in trading on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt. Trading in LetsBuyIt.com stock was halted Friday after its Amsterdam-based holding company, LetsBuyIt.com NV, was granted a moratorium on debt repayments...
[January 2, 2001, 8:22]
Expect More Stock Option Cases, Warn Feds
News Expect to see more legal action in the coming months against executives suspected of stock option mischief, federal officials told US senators on Wednesday. At a hearing here convened by the Senate Finance Committee, top officials from the...
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
Texas Tech University Performs Stock Price Analysis In Hours Instead Of Days
White Papers Texas Tech University (TTU) developed statistical resampling methods to determine whether announcements and other historical events affect stock prices. TTU deployed a SAS compute grid to optimize resources campus-wide.
[November 29, 2004, 23:00]
Worldwide Stock Monitor
Downloads The Worldwide Stock Monitor gathers 1800+ Worldwide Finance Securities Stock Exchanges Web sites. It allows you to monitor Worldwide Stock daily trends directly. A very quick and easy way to stay in touch with your favourite Finance Securities...
[April 14, 2008, 21:01]
Investors Cut Apple Stock In Half
News Apple Computer's fourth quarter profit warning sent the stock plunging 47 percent Friday morning. Bear Stearns downgraded the stock from "buy" to "neutral", SG Cowen cut it from "buy" from "strong buy", Paine Webber dropped it from "attractive" to...
[September 29, 2000, 15:16]
Micron Leads Chip-stock Revival
News Eighteen of the 24 analysts following the stock maintain either a "buy" or "strong buy" recommendation. Micron Technology shares charged up 13 3/16, or 11 percent, to 128 Wednesday after a pair of brokerage firms upgraded the chipmaker.
[April 6, 2000, 12:45]
Microsoft Sets Dividend, Splits Stock
News Microsoft set its first-ever annual stock dividend on Thursday and said it will split its stock as quarterly earnings surpassed expectations. In an unexpected move, the software titan announced an annual dividend of 16 cents per share prior to a 2...
[January 17, 2003, 8:14]
Asian Stock Crash Prompts UK Price Fall
News The boom didn't really happen and there is now excess stock. While the South Korean economy is to receive bolstering by the G7 members, further trouble in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore has prompted fears that the crisis may last longer than...
[January 9, 1998, 16:20]
Ex-AOL Worker Faces Jail For Stock Swindle
News A former America Online call centre worker pleaded guilty this week to exercising the stock options of another employee and diverting tens of thousands of dollars to himself. At the time, Wright had just 200 options to purchase AOL stock while his...
[October 2, 2002, 12:38]
Former CFO Quits Apple In Stock Options Probe
News Apple's investigation into stock option grants has led to the resignation of a former chief financial officer from the company's board of directors. An investigation by a special committee of Apple's board found irregularities with stock option...
[October 5, 2006, 9:10]
Apple Stock Hits 52-week High
News The company's stock hit a 52-week high in early trading today, jumping a further 11 per cent to 29.25 and besting the previous high of 27.75. Several analysts upgraded Apple to 'buy' ratings, reversing the battering the stock had taken before Jobs...
[August 7, 1997, 15:41]
Siebel Offers Employees Cash For Stock
News Siebel Systems will allow employees with worthless stock options to exchange them for stock or cash, the company said. Stock options grant the holder the right to buy a share of stock at a specific price, called the strike price.
[September 2, 2002, 14:35]
Do Female Execs Produce Better Stock Returns?
News Welbourne's statistics, crunched from Securities & Exchange Commission documents and stock performance charts, did not attempt to answer the question of why or how women executives boosted the stock price or earnings per share.
[December 1, 2000, 9:10]
