Option Block 698: Madness

Buying more Tim in Johnson Controls International (JCI). … Or maybe the combo – buying puts and selling calls or call spreads? … Whether it's on TheOptionsInsider.com, a leading online options destination; through Options Insider Radio, the world's only radio network for options users; or through a
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Ivanka Trump during a meeting on anti sex trafficking on March 13. Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images. Ivanka Trump met Tuesday at the White House with victims' advocates, representatives of Big Tech and lawmakers who are poised to pass a bill within days to tackle online sex trafficking.
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Then-Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the bill, a broad-ranging agriculture package with a provision to allow foreign ownership of up to 1 percent of Missouri's agricultural land. His veto was overridden by the legislature, and Shuanghui officially acquired Smithfield and its 40,000-plus acres of Missouri hog farms.
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Sotheby's International Realty sold a record $108 billion worth of real estate in 2017 — a 14 percent jump from the year prior, the company said. In the U.S., sales rose from $85 billion in 2016 to $96 billion last year. International sales increased from $10 billion to $12 billion. “The U.S. business grew
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One day after a pair of non-profit groups released a report sounding an alarm about reverse mortgage-related foreclosures, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has responded — and a spokesman claims that the groups' interpretation wasn't necessarily correct. “Based upon data we
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“The banks have strengthened markedly … after the IMF specifically called on the government to repeal the rate cap Act. The rate cap has staunched private sector credit growth and investors are calculating a repeal will encourage banks to lend again and increase their profitability” Aly-Khan Satchu, the
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If yields on the 10-year Treasury break above 3 percent, there's a high chance U.S. stocks will end the year down, according to Jeffrey Gundlach, chief investment officer of DoubleLine Capital. “My idea that the S&P would go down on the year would become an extraordinarily strong conviction as the
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Fortune Select Grand: very elegant and welcoming Fortune Select Grand – See 252 traveler reviews, 78 candid photos, and great deals for Fortune Select Grand at TripAdvisor.
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MONTGOMERY – The chairman of an Alabama House committee said it will “wait and see” if it takes up a bill to give payday loan customers more time to repay their debts. Sen. Arthur Orr's Senate Bill 138 cleared the Senate last week and now moves to the House Financial Services Committee, chaired
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Lending Administrator 6/12 month contracts South Dublin €35K TO €40K I am looking for experienced Lending administrators to work on a busy book of business lending. You need to be knowledgeable on Lending practices in Mortgage or SME loans and be immediately available. A strong
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Local Government New Zealand's funding body is closely monitoring investment in its bonds as US Treasury yields increase, with concerns borrowing costs may rise if foreign investment demand drops off. The Local Government Funding Agency (LGFA) is the second-largest issuer of debt securities in
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Investors Real Estate Trust on Monday reported a key measure of profitability in its fiscal third quarter. The results fell short of Wall Street expectations, but company leadership was upbeat. Third-quarter results show that IRET had net income of $134.3 million, or $1.12 per share. The real estate
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Gilbert says his development group has full confidence the Tulsa market can support more high end apartments. “In other markets, we look at where there is a lot of apartment construction. We don't see the same here in Tulsa or Oklahoma City,” said Gilbert. “I still think there is a lot of room for high end
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Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump, who just fired him, were a terrible fit from day one. It's pointless to seek a more profound truth here, as media boffins will insist on doing. The news doesn't show that business leaders are unfit for government service, though it does
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As has proven the case throughout 2017 and the early part of 2018, small business loan approval rates for big banks hit another new high last month, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™ (February 2018 figures). Big banks, defined as institutions with assets of more than $10
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“Today, quality residences in Hanoi's city centre, on average, are sold at only around HK$1,500 (US$191.32) per square foot, half of Bangkok's level,” said Lai. “Prices of high-quality housing will catch up with neighbouring cities amid the gradual completion of infrastructure such as railways and airport
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The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association is making new guides available for real estate agents and homebuilders that will help those professionals introduce reverse mortgages to their older clients. The initiative rolled out last week to include two toolkits — one geared toward Realtors and
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New Orleans officials signed off Tuesday on a $6.5 million incentive package for a Fortune 500 technology company that has made a landmark pledge to bring 2,000 jobs to the city over the next seven years. The City Council's Economic Development Committee and the city's Industrial Development
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Then came 2008 – with unemployment nearing record levels and the US government taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Well-known “Too Big To Fail” banks began to show signs of failing (and some did), but CTBI was left standing – proud to stick to its “basic banking” business model.
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Facebook recently made major changes to its News Feed algorithm that are expected to shrink publishers' online audiences. But it's helping publishers in other ways. In October, the company began a test to support paywalls in Instant Articles, letting publishers process payments directly and keep all of
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