Options are generally granted for a seven-to-10-year period at a strike price equal to the share price on the grant date.
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In fact, this pin is more like rolling a gutter ball, as it refers to a situation in which a stock closes at a strike price on expiration day.
One investor looked to the September contract and shed 4, 500 puts at the September 30 strike price for a premium of 55 cents in order to finance the purchase of 4, 500 calls at the higher September 35 strike at a cost of 45 cents per contract.
This means that you are selling someone else the right to buy it at a stated strike price on or before a future date.
The other dinosaur den is financial options--the equivalent of the right, for example, to buy Treasury bond futures at a certain strike price--where traders hang over the railings, screaming and waving frantically.
Norway's Draugen oilfield, which produces 225, 000 barrels a day, was closed at the weekend because of a strike among workers at the facility.
Pakistan said on Tuesday that it was not attending the talks in protest at a Nato air strike which killed 24 of its soldiers at the weekend.
When the folksy, septuagenarian former army driver began a new hunger strike at a ground in Mumbai on Tuesday demanding a strong anti-corruption law, only a few hundred people turned up.
In January, at least three people were killed during a strike at the world's second-largest platinum mine, Impala Platinum.
Novo appeared as a substitute at the interval and smashed in a terrific long range strike to condemn Falkirk to defeat at a sun-drenched Hampden.
In simple terms, you can exercise your right to purchase the stock at the strike price (call away) with a Call and you have the right to sell the stock at any time (put to someone) at the strike price at any time by purchasing a Put.
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The trade involved the sale of puts at the 35.0 strike and a sale of calls at the 45.0 strike.
Meanwhile, another investor implemented a more bullish trade in the September contract today involving the purchase of calls at the 45.0 strike and the sale of calls at the 50.0 strike for a net cost of 1.05.
Barcelona's peerless midfield pair of Andres Iniesta and Xavi ruled midfield with a display of passing perfection, starving United of further opportunities to strike at a defence weakened by injuries and suspension.
Other optimists opted to pick up 10, 000 calls at the nearer-term September 26 strike price at a price of 95 cents each.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.
The company also has just emerged from a spate of labor problems, with two local union strikes at key factories and a nearly three-month strike at key parts maker American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings (nyse: AXL - news - people ).
The home keeper was at full-stretch again to keep out Francisco Sandaza's glancing header, while James McCarthy went close with a strike at the other end.
So while GE, the world's largest manufacturing company, theoretically faced a strike--and there was a two-day national strike in January, the first at GE since 1969--the threat of a strike has probably never been as serious as it is today.
To convert the businessman into a profiteer is to strike a blow at capitalism, because it destroys the psychological equilibrium which permits the perpetuance of unequal rewards.
They may well have worried that the Honda workers' tenacity could inspire others (a brief strike did break out at a Hyundai car-parts factory on May 28th).
Risk models can only guess at the probability of a strike in a particular place.
We then get, via Reuters, a denial from Foxconn that there has been a strike at all.
If there is no contract, there may be a strike at the target.
Because Delphi is still GM's number one parts supplier, and a strike at Delphi would be a disaster for GM.
South Korean police have broken up a strike at a car parts factory which was threatening the country's car industry.
Mr Maude told the BBC it was "totally irresponsible" for Mr Serwotka to call a strike at this stage in the negotiations.
Some 1500 workers held a strike at the Media City, a center for television and movie production in a satellite city in the desert outside the capital.
Red Bull driver Mark Webber, another director of the GDPA, played down talk of a strike at Silverstone, but confirmed that they were taking the issue very seriously.
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