Ansbacher sells only short-term calls and puts--expiring in six weeks or less--that are out of the money.
Tuesday, Obama urged Congress to pass a short-term deal that puts off the cuts, allowing some breathing room for a long-term deficit reduction plan.
Markets expect Facebook to go public in the short-term, as its ever-rising number of shareholders puts pressure on regulators to ask management to release more financial information.
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In the short term, this abundance of round-number puts could translate into an added layer of options-related support for XOM.
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And there over the North Sea is the richest country in Europe: exemplary Germany, with its technical schools and apprenticeships, its respect for engineers, and its layer of family businesses known as the Mittelstand that puts long-term reputation above short-term profit by making the specialised parts that industry everywhere needs.
Bulls are not alone in populating short-term contracts, however, as demand for weekly puts is growing, as well.
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This puts the speculative short position at the highest since mid-August.
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The company, which buys infrastructure assets and puts them into funds that it then manages, blamed short-sellers for its woes.
To construct a short strangle, the trader sells an equal number of out-of-the-money puts and calls with the same expiration.
The creature's discovery has astounded scientists because their age puts them within two recognized groups of pterodactyls -- primitive long-tailed forms and advanced short-tail forms -- and they display characteristics of both.
But most members of the MPC also seem to think the economy has been permanently damaged by the crisis, and that this damage puts a limit on how much the Bank - or anyone else - can sensibly do in the short term to revive growth.
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