Market Structure Insights
August 11, 2021
The starting point for good decisions is understanding what’s going on. I find it hard to believe you can know what’s going on when you’re authorizing trillions of dollars of spending. But I digress. Investor relations professionals, when was the last time you called somebody...
August 4, 2021
We’re back! We relished upstate New York and Canandaigua Lake. If you’ve never been to Letchworth and Watkins Glen parks, put them on your list. See photo here from the former, the Upper Falls there. Alert reader Deb Pawlowski of Kei Advisors, a local resident,...
July 21, 2021
So which is it? Monday, doom loomed over stocks. In Punditry were wringing hands, hushed tones. The virus was back. Growth was slowing. Inflation. The sky was falling! Then came Tuesday. Jekyll and Hyde? Options expirations. Only CNBC’s Brian Sullivan mentioned it. As ModernIR...
July 14, 2021
Happy Bastille Day! Also, Goldman Sachs made $15 per share, 50% over expectations. The stock declined. JP Morgan earned $12 billion on revenue of $31 billion, doubling views. Shares fell. Why are banks making 36% margins when you can’t earn a dime of interest? I...
July 7, 2021
What should you know about your stock, public companies? Well, what do you know about your business that you can rattle off to some inquiring investor while checking the soccer schedule for your twelve-year-old, replying to an email from the CFO, and listening to an...
June 30, 2021
The Russell Reconstitution is so big everybody talks about it. And yet it’s not. The Nasdaq touted its role facilitating this year’s Russell reset, saying, “A record 2.37 billion shares representing $80,898,531,612 were executed in the Closing Cross in 1.97 seconds across Nasdaq-listed securities.” Impressive,...