Topic: Michael Schwartz

Haute cuisine on the high seas

The cuisine aboard cruise ships is usually more about quantity than quality but Royal Caribbean International has hooked a James Beard Award winner...
![CDATA[Solea, as the tabloids say, in happier times.Miami Spice is still offering its cheap eats through the end of September, but the latest...

Yale Gives IPads to Med School Students

Macworld - Yale School of Medicine is distributing the iPad 2 to every one of its students this fall, joining a trend at medical schools across the ...

The best burgers in the U.S.

The burger, America's quintessential comfort food, can now be enjoyed in an impossibly endless number of ways. There are round-the-clock burgers at...

Water main break floods Bronx

A massive water main break flooded streets in the Bronx Wednesday, snarling transit for hours and forcing residents from their homes, officials...
Fourteen hardhats suffered minor injuries Wednesday morning when a freight elevator taking them to a job in Chelsea plunged three floors, officials...

Female peacock escapes from Bx. zoo

The Bronx Zoo cobra may be back in captivity, but a female peacock has escaped and is wandering the city.. . Three zoo workers wielding giant nets...

A Tax-Loss Deadline Approaches

FOR SOME INVESTORS, THE END of the year goes like this: What does Michael Schwartz, Oppenheimer's chief options strategist, have to do with anyone's holiday celebrations? While many investors double up by buying an identical stock position, Schwartz, Oppenheimer's ...
THERE'S A WAY TO USE options to lighten the burden of a coming capital-gains tax increase. Investors can sell the stock and replace the position with a January $175 call that expires in 2012 and costs $37.84. Rather than simply ...

Outfoxing a Higher Tax on Gains

Michael Schwartz, the dean of Wall Street options strategists, says investors can consider selling stocks with major gains and paying the current long-term capital-gains tax rate of 15% without giving up the chance to make even more money in the stock that ...