The plans, due to come into force in the summer, involve a cap on tariff options to make it easier for consumers to compare contracts and shop around.

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He will also boost taxes on financial income, scrap exemptions from the annual wealth tax, end stock options and cap bonuses.

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Some investors are going to prefer the index strategies and while there are options for large cap stocks, for midcap names or thematic strategies, only active management funds are available to investors.

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It has drawn up a shortlist of options, including a carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme that would apply to all airlines.

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Therefore, a couple of option-buying strategies to consider would be straddles and pair trades on equity options in the small- and mid-cap space, which puts you in a position to profit from either upside or downside in the market over the next several weeks.

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He says stock options--which are not subject to the deferred compensation cap--could be one way to make up for the cap on deferred revenue.

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At the time, ministers said a cap was the "right basis" for change but they needed to look at other cheaper options.

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Stock options with an exercise price of fair market value or higher on the grant date qualified as cap-exempt performance-based compensation, while service-vested restricted stock did not.

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Since the Dow is composed of 30 large-cap companies that tend to have low implied volatilities, I assumed it would have been most profitable to buy options on these stocks.

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