Employee stock options are similar to exchange traded call options issued by a company with respect to its own stock. At any time before exercise, employee stock options can be said to have two components: time value and intrinsic value. Any remaining time value component is forfeited back to the company when early exercises are made.
An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit used to perform arithmetic and logic operations. It represents the fundamental building block of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. Modern CPUs contain very powerful and complex ALUs. In addition to ALUs, modern CPUs contain a control unit (CU).
alu. 1  Nokia (NOK) is in talks to buy Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) in a deal that would create a group worth around 40 billion euros ($42 billion). 2  The Finnish and French companies said in a statement that at this stage there was no certainty that a merger would go ahead.