Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:

They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.)

This is truly bizarre. First, if they were on the NASDAQ, they'd have a 4-letter ticker symbol, not a 3-letter symbol. MSFT (Microsoft) is on NASDAQ. IBM (IBM) and F (Ford) are on the New York stock exchange and/or American stock exchange. Sometimes the stock of a foreign company is traded in the U.S. in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) not sponsored by the company. How could that impose any obligation on it? --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

Jyri Kaljundi <jk@stallion.ee> writes:

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They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.)

This is truly bizarre. First, if they were on the NASDAQ, they'd have a 4-letter ticker symbol, not a 3-letter symbol. MSFT (Microsoft) is on NASDA IBM (IBM) and F (Ford) are on the New York stock exchange and/or American stock exchange.

The actual ticker symbol for Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is CHKPF.

Scitex is an Israeli company run by Shamirs. Their ticker symbol is SCIXF. They make the best high-end color printers in the world. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: | Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes: | > They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American | > company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of | > Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.) | | This is truly bizarre. First, if they were on the NASDAQ, they'd have a | 4-letter ticker symbol, not a 3-letter symbol. MSFT (Microsoft) is on NASDA | IBM (IBM) and F (Ford) are on the New York stock exchange and/or | American stock exchange.

Oops. Misread my stock service. I usually pay little attention to what exchange something is traded on. CKP is on the NYSE.

The exchange is of little relevance to most small investors. It matters, e.g., if you're trying to figure out your transaction costs. If you buy or sell an exchange-listed stock, then there's the stock price (money going to the shares' old owner or coming from the new owner) and a separate commission going to your broker (3c/share if you're smart). With NASDAQ stocks, you buy them at ask price and sell them at bid price. The spread between the two prices is the broker's source of revenue. You can't tell how much of the money you paid went for the shares and how much to the broker. For the same reason the volume figures in most sources have to be divided by 2 for NASDAQ issues to be comparable with exchange-listed issues. Anyway it's irrelevant in this case.

| Sometimes the stock of a foreign company is traded in the U.S. in the form | of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) not sponsored by the company. How | could that impose any obligation on it?

"He asks, as if the ITARs were logical."

Fuck ITAR, fuck being (un)sponsored, consider the SEC disclosure requirements. In the U.S., a publicly traded company has to file reports with the SEC and make them publicly available. There's the big annual report (10K etc) at the end of the fiscal year, and little quarterly reports (10Q etc). Other countries have different requrements. E.g. in Japan they only have the annual report and the semiannual (QII) one - not for QI and QIII. Sony's ADRs (SNY) are traded in the U.S. pretty actively, but neither Sony nor any other Japanese company I know of issues QI or QIII reports. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps