Word: nasdaq
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...happens, the broadest distributions occurred from 1998 to 2001, a period marked by nosebleed stock valuations. The 10-year expiration on those grants is near, and the NASDAQ is still at just half its peak level, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 has barely gotten back to even. Grants made in 2000 alone represent lost value of $150 billion, with virtually no chance of recovery, says Ira Kay, an executive pay consultant at Watson Wyatt...
...Best Stocks are the biggest-percentage gainers with a market cap of at least $1 billion on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Data from Thomson Financial
...shielded. Song Wenzhou, who moved to Japan as a university student in 1985, founded a software business that made headlines in 2000 when it became the first company helmed by a foreigner who arrived in Japan as an adult to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's NASDAQ equivalent. He's now rich and dines with Japanese Prime Ministers. But Song recounts how he was recently stopped on the subway by police who suspected he was an illegal immigrant. "It's not just the Japanese government," Song says. "It's in the air, this anti-foreigner feeling. Even...
...everyone. The deal highlights the competition among the cash-rich gulf states for clout and glory. As Dubai was finalizing its plans to buy OMX and trade it for 20% of NASDAQ, Qatar suddenly triggered a potential new bidding war by swooping up a nearly 10% share of the Nordic exchange. There may be room for more than one financial center in the region. Yet Dubai and Qatar seem bent on a showdown, with Dubai betting on its venture with the Americans and Qatar with the Europeans. "Both of them," one banker tells Time, "think there can only...
Indeed, the NASDAQ deal illustrates the sophistication of gulf boardrooms, not to mention a determination to proceed with economic development in spite of the region's political instability. Borse Dubai originally got into a bidding war with NASDAQ over OMX. But when an intermediary suggested that they form a partnership instead, Borse Dubai quickly agreed. According to Borse Dubai chief Essa Kazim, the new arrangement gives Dubai access to even more expertise and global investors than it would have received in a partnership with OMX alone. "We felt we can complement each other," Kazim says. "NASDAQ can continue to expand...