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Covered call writing is generally thought of as a conservative option writing approach because the call options that are sold for the premium are not naked. Covered call writing involves owning the underlying assets – which may be stock or futures contracts – and selling the call options against that underlying position. Should the covered

Chinese state media have released videos purportedly showing Peng Shuai in public, attempting to quell rising international concern over Beijing’s treatment of the missing tennis star. Peng had not been seen nor heard from since early November after she alleged via social media that former Chinese vice-premier Zhang Gaoli assaulted her on at least one

Making spousal individual retirement account (IRA) contributions is an important way to build up a married couple’s retirement nest egg if only one spouse is employed. Individuals without income from jobs generally aren’t eligible to contribute to tax-advantaged retirement accounts, such as IRAs, because they don’t have “eligible” compensation on which to base such contributions.

Joe Biden’s battle to pass a $1.75tn package to enhance the social safety net and combat climate change moves to the thorny terrain of the US Senate, after clearing the House of Representatives. The House on Friday passed the sweeping Build Back Better bill, which includes subsidies for early childhood education, tax credits for families

This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Specification:  Exchange rates, monetary policy Click to read the article below and then answer the questions: Euro hit by bets ECB monetary policy will diverge from major peers With reference to the chart, explain whether

It seems inevitable that two of the hottest areas of the investment world would meet up sooner or later. For cryptocurrency enthusiasts and investors looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs), the possibility of an ETF that tracks bitcoin is the best opportunity for this type of connection. However, there have

In this article DLTR People walk by a Dollar Tree store on December 11, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Company: Dollar Tree Inc. (DLTR) Business: Dollar Tree operates discount variety retail stores. It operates through two segments: Dollar Tree and Family Dollar.

UBS has proposed former Morgan Stanley president Colm Kelleher as its next chair, succeeding Axel Weber when he steps down next year after a decade overseeing the Swiss lender. The appointment of Kelleher, a 64-year-old Irishman who spent 30 years at the Wall Street bank, was announced on Saturday morning. UBS conducted a wide external

Chile, hailed for decades as a model of steady economic growth but reeling from two years of social unrest, will vote on Sunday in a general election that has sharply polarised the country between the political left and right. Huge uncertainty hangs over Sunday’s race, the first presidential ballot since the estallido, or explosion, of

FICO is perhaps the most recognizable name in credit scores. The Fair Isaac Corporation (now called FICO), which developed the FICO credit scoring algorithm, says its scores are used by 90% of top U.S. lenders in 90% of lending decisions. There are currently several types of FICO scores available. The most widely used model is

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday the recent market underperformance of non-tech stocks gives investors the chance to purchase names that do well when Americans spend their money. “What an opportunity to buy things that are being thrown away left and right,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” as Dow futures pointed to an over

The healthcare technology company Athenahealth is close to being sold to the private equity firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman, according to people familiar with the situation, in a $17bn deal that would bring down the curtain on a buyout fashioned from one of the hardest-fought activist campaigns in recent memory. The private equity

A lawsuit brought by the owner of London’s Wolseley restaurant against insurance group Axa in a dispute over cover for Covid-related losses is to be heard in the High Court in January, with implications for UK businesses that held similar policies. Corbin & King, which also owns the Delaunay restaurants in central London, is suing

Contributing to a tax-advantaged retirement account comes with rules that make it difficult to get your hands on your cash should you suddenly need it. These controls are one reason people can feel understandably reluctant to fund an individual retirement account (IRA) or 401(k) plan to the max each year, even though they know the

In this article M0Y-DE A rendering of the company’s laser communications system on satellites in orbit. Mynaric German laser communications company Mynaric listed on the Nasdaq in the past week and CEO Bulent Altan, a former SpaceX executive, spoke to CNBC about the company’s U.S. debut and plans for further growth. The company raised $75.9

The surge in Covid cases across Europe is forcing governments to take drastic measures, with Austria on course to become the first country in the continent to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory in an effort to curb infections. Vaccines would be required for all Austrians from February 1, with the country also reimposing a strict lockdown.

A second big shareholder of Daily Mail and General Trust has opposed Lord Rothermere’s bid to take the media group private, attacking his offer as “neither fair nor supportable”. J O Hambro Capital Management said on Friday it was “underwhelmed and unconvinced” by the takeover proposal from the Rothermere family, which it said failed to

Google created a corporate structure under a new holding company and moniker called Alphabet in 2015. But there are still two ticker symbols for Alphabet on the NASDAQ stock exchange—GOOG and GOOGL—and there’s very little price difference between the two. So what gives? The short answer is a stock split, but a longer answer is an

Nvidia’s acquisition of UK chip design company Arm from SoftBank has provoked serious opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. The deal, first announced in September 2020, has been bogged down in regulatory reviews around the world, and is set to miss its initial timeframe to close by March 2022. This week, Nvidia’s financial results

Owing to my forgetfulness, my lunch with Amy Chua starts awkwardly before it even begins. On the train to New Haven, home of Yale University where Chua has been a tenured professor for 20 years, I realise that I forgot to reserve her favourite restaurant as requested — the Union League Cafe, a staple of

Theoretically, the ability to make money on stocks involves two key decisions: buying at the right time and selling at the right time. To make a profit, you have to execute both of these decisions correctly. Buying a stock is relatively easy, but selling it is usually a more difficult decision to make. If you

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provides the keynote address at the Air Force Association’s Annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Oxen Hill, MD, on September 19, 2018. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin this fall raised its offer to cover NASA costs of an astronaut lunar lander by more

Joe Biden met the leaders of Canada and Mexico at the White House on Thursday, with the three agreeing to work towards expanding visas for temporary workers and deepening regional supply chains. In a joint statement late on Thursday, the three North American leaders said they intended to talk about expansion plans and lessons learnt

Hong Kong shares in Alibaba slumped 10 per cent on Friday, a day after the Chinese ecommerce giant forecast annual revenue to grow at its slowest pace since its 2014 stock market debut. The group’s New York-listed shares fell more than 11 per cent on Thursday. Alibaba’s second-quarter results missed expectations due to slowing consumption,

The winter holiday shopping season is in full swing, and for many, has been since fall began. The basic theme remains the same: Shoppers will feverishly continue to try to find the perfect meaningful gifts for everyone on their list.  From the shopping frenzies of Black Friday and Cyber Monday to the last-minute sales just

In this article NFLX Netflix logo Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images John Malone, regarded as one of the shrewdest media investors ever, told CNBC he saw the importance of video streaming to the evolving television ecosystem, even in the early days. In an interview that aired Thursday, the Liberty Media billionaire

​The UK government has been accused of leaving poorer households worse off after it removed “a central element of progressivity” in its highly anticipated social care reform. Sir Andrew Dilnot, architect of the original blueprint for the reforms, told the Treasury select committee that the changes, specifically rejected as unfair by his commission a decade

Inverse oil exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which are leveraged and can be highly risky, seek to short either a single energy commodity or a combination of several energy commodities. Examples of the types of commodities typically shorted by these ETFs include crude oil, gasoline, and heating oil. These ETFs gain when prices of the underlying oil-based

Emerging market equities were under pressure for the second consecutive session as concerns over elevated global inflation added to nerves about a Chinese slowdown and tighter financing conditions rippling out from the US. MSCI’s broad EM stock barometer fell about 0.8 per cent on Thursday in US dollar terms, bringing its decline over the past

In this article WMT TGT CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Target, like Walmart a day earlier, should not be trading lower because the big-box retailer’s quarterly results on Wednesday were “terrific.” “It is just a conundrum to see Target down $12 [or roughly 5%],” Cramer said, referring to the stock’s premarket decline at the end of