Market Structure Insights
October 19, 2022
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” moves in stocks ranging from...
October 12, 2022
We’re just back from Rome, where the empire is no more but its imprint enthralls. And yes, that’s like the stock market. We’ll get to it. Do the Scavi tour under St Peter’s Basilica. It’s breathtaking and not just because it’s underground. It’s an archaeological...
September 28, 2022
Maybe we should have a horse race to decide our elections. In Siena, the whole region gathers July 2 and August 16 annually, thronging the Piazza del Campo (the city square you see behind our beverages in the photo here, shot Sep 26) for The...
September 21, 2022
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 most Boards and c-suites think...
September 14, 2022
Well, that answers that question. The question? If over 50% of volume in the S&P 500 is short for the first time ever and investment declines 3% despite a 5% rise for stocks the week ended Sep 9 driven by trading machines, could the market...
September 7, 2022
The marvel is that people keep buying it. Buying what? That the stock market goes up and down for rational reasons. The market plunged in the first half of 2022, worst start in 50 years. Yet jobs numbers remain strong, the dollar is strong, blah...