Stock Options Hurt U.S. Competitiveness
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The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
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Business & money: Markets on both sides of the Atlantic take  fright  at data showing weakness in the US and Germany.
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Congress is taking a close look at suspiciously timed stock options for top company executives, a corporate practice that is a source of anger for shareholders and the subject of federal investigations.
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US stocks suffered a lacklustre session as doubts about a plan by world central banks to help alleviate the worst effects of the credit squeeze weighed on sentiment.
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The stock selloff worsened as reports of slumping stocks in China and Europe and a steep decline in durable goods orders raised worries that the recent rally may be tapped out. News that Vice President Dick Cheney was the apparent target in a Taliban suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan added to the concerns.
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Some companies have ousted their CEOs for merely being around during stock option scandals. Those companies weren't led by Steve Jobs.
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The recent bleak returns on Wall Street have prompted many investment advisers to prescribe the same bromide: switch to defensive stocks and cut back on bonds.
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PARIS Stock option accounting has become an international battleground, but those wars may be nearing an end as major industrial countries move toward rules that force companies to deduct the value of options from their earnings.
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US economic competitiveness fell significantly over the last year, as high budget and trade deficits hurt America's business environment, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum.
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Anchoring to a stock's price can keep you from making serious money.
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The nation's accounting rulemaker decided Thursday that companies will have to begin deducting the value of stock options from their profits next year, a move cheered by shareholder advocates but scorned by many companies who rely heavily on options to beef up compensation packages.
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While these stocks can be cheap for a reason, they might also present overlooked opportunities.
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Every year, public companies put a number of questions before their stockholders for a vote. Investors weigh in on whether to reelect company directors, reappoint auditors, and approve or kill plans to give big stock option packages to senior executives.
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Several top strategists say increasing complacency about market risk is complicating the traditional approaches to investing in a time of low inflation.
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The stark sell-off that sent global stock prices plummeting  brought renewed concern that the equity markets in China and India might be overvalued.
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Two scary things can destroy the value of your portfolio.
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A new study estimates that the stock options backdating scandal may cost shareholders hundreds of millions of dollars.