Greenspan is talking about stock options right now. He said that he thought that options should be charged to company earnings. They gave a couple of examples but Yahoo was the one that caught my eye. If stock options were charged to earnings as an expense, Yahoo would have went from making $70M in 2000 to losing $1.2B. If they change this policy and make options charged to earnings, then earnings for a lot of different companies will be severely affected.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.