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IB IPO is going for a 10B market cap. How does that compare to REFCO IPO a few years back ... 2.5B market cap? http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321746/000104746905021309/a2162155z424b1.htm

Granted, your C Corp will be able to retain earnings after paying the Federal Corporate Income tax on those earnings (your looking at 15% here?), but I don't believe a dividend distribution from the C Corp would be "qualified" in the US - meaning, it might be taxed at the normal income tax rate...

Count 2 votes here. The Original Poster claims to live in Costa Rica and claims to work for a IDB? (inter-dealer broker?)

I must be missing something ... I see 3%.

IBKR IPO: Q12007 Filed 4/13/2007 http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1381197/000110465907028348/a07-8752_3fwp.htm "Unexpectedly heavy options activity in advance of certain corporate announcements adversely impacted our market making operations during the quarter ended March 31, 2007."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefellers#Members_of_the_Rockefeller_family which one of the Rockefeller s had their Wiki page removed? The senator from Virginia? John D the 5th? I don't see it?

at .50 per contract (100 shares) ... i get .005 or 0.5 cents / share

They pay their living expenses with the time and money they save on trading fees ;) Here is a buy and hold from 1958. The dividend is now quite substantial. And tell me when you would have "sold" and bought back in ... as a trader.

here is a "big" chart of Gold ... since 1975

prophet.net use the futures contract symbol GC then use 1600 for the cash market data goes back to 1975

Good points. I was mainly watching it in a dark room without any other monitors to compare. NY Yankees too ... so not a lot of colors. I could count the whiskers on the batter ... and the motion was perfect (no stepping).

A coworker of mine got a Westinghouse 1080p monitor to do demos at trade shows: http://www.westinghousedigital.com/details.aspx?itemnum=59 I think it was only about $1700. He hooked it up to his Digital HD Cable Set-top box and WOW! The SA set top box drove it to 1080p on the YES...

Tom F, nice explanation for Fx carry trade. A simple carry mechanism using futures, would be to "short" the front month Yen futures contract The price of the contract decays over time at a rate equivalent to the differential between JPY overnight and USD libor overnight. In other words, you...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/business/20hedge.html ... looks like they were doing calendar spreads out to 2009. Beware, though, when LTC was bailed out in 1998 ... the prices kept moving against those positions for several weeks after the bail out ... finally recovered. In Japan...

You are mistaken - prices have increased. Read carefully: C.A.R. reports sales decrease 29.9% in July, median price up 5.1% from year ago

Even if the government didn't directly guarantee the mortgage ... ... they did bail out all the insolvent mortgage bankers in 1990-1991 when the likes of City Federal Savings went under in the last Real Estate Cycle bust ... the equity stock holders of City Federal got zero'd out and we, the...

... the article mention claims that the reduction in income taxes created the divide in wealth ... ironically, income taxes we initially imposed in 1913, then steadily increased to 94% by 1945 for income over 200k. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_income_tax In 1913, however, the...

... oopps my bad (not $5000 per $1)

... twice?