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The financial crisis: No downside for executives who have been paid millions
It?s easy to blame short sellers for troubles in the stock market. After all, they make money when a stock?s price goes down. That?s bad, right? No, not really. It?s no worse than the longs holding stock and hoping a company has good news so they can profit from stock prices going up...

IRC Section 1244 Stock: An Easy Way to Convert Capital Losses to Ordinary Losses
Although no one starts up a business with plans to fail or lose money, the success rate statistics for new businesses can be daunting. That's why Section 1244 stock should be on the mind of every new business owner who organizes their business as a C corporation...

Buffett Steals Goldman Stock
Buffet bought $5 b in Goldman Sachs preferred stock, giving him close to 62% of all the Goldman preferred stock outstanding. The catch, he gets a 10% dividend (above the market rate for preferred stock recently issued by investment banks...

Earnings management, lawsuits, and stock-for-stock acquirers market performance
(Editor?s Note: This post comes from Henock Louis, Guojin Gong, and Amy X. Sun at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University) In a forthcoming Journal of Accounting and Economics paper entitled Earnings management, lawsuits, and stock-for-stock acquirers? market performance, we analyze whether postmerger announcement lawsuits are associated with pre-merger abnormal accruals and the [...

Is China Ready to Establish the Stock Index Futures Market
I. Introduction As a derivative financial product, Stock Index Futures (SIF) is distinguished because of its function in risk management when used duly. China is eager to introduce SIF to offer downside protection to investors, stabilize its stock market, and...

Rational Market
I have to admit that I have always been more interested in the average Doug Jones than the Dow Jones average, but then I am just a common guy. But, the big drop in Google stock price is just proof positive that the stock market is gambling with all of the precision of betting on a horse race...

Corporations Drop Stock Buybacks
Why aren't there any stock repurchase programs when investors could really use them? Corporations frequently buy their own shares in the open market as a way of maintaining the stock price, yet buybacks are down...

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

Stock Market Losses
alleging bad financial advice and conflicts of interest.

MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Texron Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Texron Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

MGM Mirage 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
MGM Mirage 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Rentech, Inc, 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Rentech, Inc, 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

PrivateBancorp, Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
PrivateBancorp, Inc 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud