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Kamikaze Defense A kamikaze defense is a method for deterring a potential acquirer from purchasing a company. How it works: Kamikaze defense is named after the suicide attacks of Japanese pilots during World War II. For example, Company FGH makes a bid to buy Company STW. The STW board of directors does not want to sell ...

Futures contracts vs. Forward contracts A futures contract,  often referred to as futures, is a standardized version of a forward contract that is publicly traded on a futures exchange (CME, LME etc.). Like a forward contract, a futures contract includes an agreed upon price and time in the future to ...

Options: Pros and Cons Pros: Flexibility Limited risk Buying options limits your exposure. The maximum you can lose is the value of the option, the price you paid for it. Purchasing options as a speculative vehicle offers limited downside — you cannot lose more than the price you paid for ...

15 of Steve Jobs most inspiring quotes “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” “It’s really hard to design products ...

Banc De Binary Demo Binary Option is a type of option where the trader takes a yes or no position on the price of a financial asset, and the resulting payoff is all or nothing. Because of this characteristic, Binary Options can be easier to understand and trade than traditional ...

Corvex Management has disclosed a $1B (nearly 4%) stake in Crown Castle CCI Commodities now: Crude -1.1% to $84.80. Gold +0.3% to $1,233.70 Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgrades Wynn Resorts WYNN to a Neutral rating from Buy U.K. inflation falls to five-year low Twitter TWTR ends up selling $1.8B ...

Bitcoin prices on the Mt. Gox exchange climbed back above $1,000 as online gaming company Zynga announced it had begun testing accepting payments in Bitcoin. The CEO of Overstock.com, a discount-shopping website, revealed plans to accept bitcoin in the first half of 2014. Bitcoin topped for the first time the ...

What is the January Effect? A recurring trend in the stock market during the month of January (mostly the first half of the month) wherein stock prices tend to go up. Towards the end of the year many investors sell-off stock, in order to adjust gains and to lower the ...

Boston Dynamics extreme robots Boston Dynamics  released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait. Google bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon A video of one of Boston Dynamics’ robots named BigDog ...

Sir Richard Branson announced that his commercial space flight venture Virgin Galactic will accept the currency for space flights. Branson said that one passenger, a female flight attendant from Hawaii, has already purchased a Virgin Galactic ticket using bitcoins and he expects “many more to follow in her footsteps.” Branson ...