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September 06, 2006

Stocks Fluctuate in Afternoon

Stocks Fluctuate in Afternoon Trade
ABC News - NEW YORK Sep 5, 2006 (AP) Wall Street fluctuated Tuesday as traders got back to work from a three-day break to find oil prices retreating again but little other data to guide them. The major indexes, which all crept higher by midday to build on

On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law
New York Times - Then there is a little matter of insider trading when insiders (of course) trade stock based on inside knowledge. But what is a management buyout other than trading not just some but all of the shares of the corporation based on inside knowledge

CBOT files suit against options exchange CBOE
KWQC - C-B-O-T established the options exchange in the early 1970s, which gave full C-B-O-T members the right to trade stock options at the C-B-O-E. Last September, the board of the options exchange voted to begin converting the C-B-O-E into a for-profit

Big execs dance around tax laws
Kansas City Star - A basic protection for American investors is that corporate executives must tell the world when they trade stock in the companies they run. But what happens when two executives set up foreign trusts that do the trading, keep the transactions secret

The Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?
New York Times - The Internet has radically changed the way consumers buy books and airline tickets, trade stock and learn news. But the real estate industry has resisted change and protected its commission structure by controlling the information on its

Posted by auctionbullet at September 6, 2006 12:08 AM