"I continue to have confidence in the underlying strength of the global economy, " Paulson said.
Unfortunately, the credit crisis of 2008-09 exposed a gaping hole in the underlying business model.
Typically, short sellers buy calls to protect their positions against rallies in the underlying shares.
Typically, put options are used to bet on a downside move in the underlying shares.
Put it another way, these forecasts are wildly, unavoidably, sensitive to even small changes in the underlying assumptions.
The options premium normally covers the first 5% down in the underlying stock.
Aside from management not taking action early enough, RIM has also been caught in a fundamental shift in the underlying category.
The meta-analysis suggested that 14% of researchers in the underlying studies had seen their colleagues fabricate, falsify, alter or modify data.
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The latter are vulnerable to the weak economy and, in the case of ethanol projects, a change in the underlying economics.
Be interested in the underlying product or service that the company provides.
The riskiest tranche, known as equity, earns the highest return but takes the first hit from any defaults in the underlying portfolio.
Such a downgrade, or future downgrades, could force a large scale liquidation of these holdings due to changes in the underlying credit quality.
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The fall in the underlying rate is because the timing of last month's Budget meant duty rises were too late to have an effect.
The U-shaped "Smile" keys offer a comfortable resting place for the fingers, while offering forceful feedback and absolutely no give in the underlying panel.
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Aside from betting on a rally in the underlying shares, call options can also be used to protect short positions in the stock.
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Alternatively, the trader may be cautiously optimistic on the pharmaceuticals giant, establishing the put spread to hedge a long position in the underlying shares.
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Where the Desire S differs from the Incredible S is, firstly, in the underlying Android OS, which tastes of Gingerbread (2.3.3), Google's latest mobile flavor.
In some sectors, like emerging markets, it is easier for investors to buy and sell an ETF than to trade in the underlying illiquid assets.
One strategist appears to have enacted a three-legged bullish play on Visa to reduce premium required to position for upside potential in the underlying shares.
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Basically, when the put-call ratio reverses from extreme negative readings and begins to reflect optimism, it is associated with subsequent price appreciation in the underlying stock.
Strypes purchasers get fixed interest payments plus a large share of any gains in the underlying stock while assuming all or almost all the risk of loss.
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This gives the attacker the ability to bypass anti-exploitation technologies in the underlying operating system and exploit flaws in the OS that otherwise would not be exploitable.
According to the complaint, the defendants led investors to believe that the loans in the underlying RMBS were evaluated and monitored to ensure quality of the investment.
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Add in the underlying concerns about the Italian economy's feeble growth rate, and investors are understandably worried about the Italian government's ability to shoulder its huge debt.
They found what they consider a flaw in the underlying formula: Pearson combined results from the two tests and used a theoretical shortcut to produce a final result.
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As there is value in the underlying infrastructure, profitable infrastructure spending that creates work and reduces the deficit is preferable to government transfer payments that can discourage work.
Also, if you are concerned with severe weather, I discuss how increased media coverage of extreme events is often mistaken for a trend in the underlying events here.
Yet it remains possible that it will be a change in the underlying technology that dethrones Google, as it has Microsoft, rather than anyone actually competing head on with them.
Relatively large call open interest in the November contract suggests some strategists saw the value of previously established bullish positions on Tekelec sky-rocket on the move in the underlying shares.
While the calls do not appear to be tied to any simultaneous transaction in the underlying stock, it is possible the investor is already long the stock and selling covered calls.
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