Backdating Options Widespread
The NYT has joined the chorus of option critics, jumping intp the fray with this story today: Study Finds Backdating of Options...
More on “Special” 9/11 Stock Option Grants
>The request went up (in comments) for a who’s who list of the post 9/11 stock option granters and grantees. I put in a...
Post-9/11 Option Grants Under Scrutiny
The WSJ continues its recent habit of burying killer stories in the under read Saturday edition. This week’s bombshell has to do...
Making Insider Trading Legal
I’m still digging out from what I missed while on vacation, but this obscure speech from SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins last week...
A Preview of Q2 Earnings
Is Q2 the quarter where earnings disappointments impact the markets? After 14 quarters of double digit year-over-year earnings growth, is...
Is Overstock Behind Hedge Fund Testimony?
Remind me never to piss off Herb Greenberg: “Herb Greenberg, in his blog on MarketWatch.com, raises an eyebrow about the testimony...
Google Checkout
The initial reports were wrong. The new service is not, as was previously stated, G-Buy or Google Wallet, but Google Checkout. And the...
eBay revisited
Last month, I noted that Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com had all made 52 week lows, and explained why I don’t like to buy stocks in that...
Read it here first: The Cost of Sarbanes-Oxley
It is a rather annoying tendency of politicians — and their empty-headed acolytes — to use and abuse of data and charts. One...
Empire of Microsoft
This is hysterical: A graphic map depicting the epic struggle of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) against the Empire of...