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Ford Pinto
Remember the Ford Pinto? (EDITORIAL NOTE: also remember to join tomorrow’s weekly live Demo and discussion for Market Structure EDGE, if spots are still available). If you were born in the 1980s or later, you probably don’t know the Pinto. …
View pageBarometric Pressure
About 35 seconds after Consumer Price Index data debuted yesterday at 830a ET, Dow Jones futures were up 950 points. What is the stock market a barometer for? Inflation was 7.1% instead of 7.3%. The all-time high for blue-chip stocks…
View pageBig Risk Transfer
Index futures expire today. Well, if you’re reading November 30, that is. I’m flying today from Charleston where we’ve spent the month of November to Phoenix for a panel on the rise of thematic investing at the NIRI Senior Round…
View pageWhere’s the Poo
Geese are flying over Denver now, headed south. Have you wondered if they poo up there? Well, wonder no more. Karen and I were walking in Denver’s Washington Park to the distant honk of traveling geese. I felt something carom…
View pageWhat the Hell?
ModernIR has seen a surge of interest from companies perplexed by the stock market. They see that stocks don’t move with fundamentals, don’t move as expected. They move with each other. An October 12 Wall Street Journal article described “lock-step”…
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Are traders shorting your stock? There’s a good article in IR Magazine by independent board director Rosalind Kainyah on what she expects from the company’s IR team. One data point: Comparative shorting for the company and peers. The trouble is…
View pageBig Little Things
Never underestimate the big importance of small things. It’s a line from a book called The Midnight Library that we listened to while driving from Steamboat Springs to Austin this week. The character in the book who uses it…
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