Finance and Credit Professional

Taking a look through the broadsheets of a business section you will notice that many companies offer their executive bonuses or part of their salaries for a good job. This is also known as "options".What actually are options? Do they have any link with stocks? What is meant by the phrase "options are exercised" [...]

When you go to closing on a mortgage, you have a number of options available to you. One of these is to pay points so that the interest rate can be reduced. Here is what you need to know to help you determine if you should pay points on your mortgage.A mortgage point is equal [...]

What happened to the stock markets these past two weeks?Anyone at all involved in investing or trading no doubt personally experienced it- the stock markets went through a major correction! And in these days of the "World Economy" such a correction can be triggered by news from anywhere in the world. As it did [...]