After you've bought it, do you ever go back to look at the other options, just in case?

为了以防万一，你买了以后，你还会回去看其他选择么？

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They have two main options: acquisitions (Pepsi has just bought its two main bottlers) or payouts to shareholders—assuming they are cheery enough to stop hoarding cash.

现在，摆在这些公司面前的，主要有两条路：一是收购其他公司（百事公司前不久才收购了两大饮料品牌）；二是把钱交给股东们——想象他们欣喜若狂，就不会再把钱攒起来了。 ---》they指代firms，公司现在有钱了，很high，不像金融危机那样紧巴巴不敢花钱了。assume假定

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Mexico bought put options - contracts that give the holder the right to sell oil at a predetermined price.

墨西哥购买了看跌期权——令持有者有权以预订价格卖出石油的合约。

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NASDAQ, have bought options exchanges, which enjoy bigger margins than pure stockmarkets.

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Kevin Grady, founder of Phoenix Futures and Options, said gold has been under pressure from market participants who bought put options in November and are now exiting those positions in the futures market.

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Mr. Jackson's bet: that, because the strike price entitled an investor to own Kimberly-Clark shares at a price lower than the stock's current market price, the investor who bought the call options would exercise the contracts before the ex-dividend date to capture the company's 60 cent-a-share payout (recently increased to 66 cents).

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