Interconnection
“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world.” Davy Crockett said it and left it at the Alamo. So we’re glad to be inside Austin’s city limits sponsoring the…
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Investor-relations professionals are traveling salespeople. Now, we’re not paid commissions and I can see some of you recoiling at the imagery of rumpled suits and satchels stuffed with brushes, a voice saying, “Excuse me, ma’am, do you have a couple…
View pageDark Costs
Credit Suisse. Deutsche Bank. ITG. Pipeline. Barclays. UBS. BNP Paribas. Citadel. Goldman Sachs. Liquidnet. Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Citigroup. What commonality unites these firms? All have been fined for violating rules on so-called dark pools, private stock-trading venues. At…
View pageBoards Should Know
We thought we were going to need a boat. Driving into Kansas City, a torrent fell in such proportion that the sky, the landscape, the topography of the roadway, disappeared into a pelting gloom that had our wipers humming on…
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. So wrote Woody Allen for himself as Broadway Danny Rose in the eponymous 1984 film. I’m not sure what Allen meant then as I was a high-school sophomore wearing a…
View pageBehavioral Volatility
I recall knowing one particularly volatile fellow. I should have called him VIX. Speaking of the VIX, options on that popularly titled Fear Gauge expire today as a raft of S&P components report results. Many will see sharp moves in…
View pageDefend Yourselves
You need to defend yourselves as public companies. This clarion lesson comes from last week’s trading halt at the NYSE though we think the exchange handled the outage correctly. Humans want pictures of perfection like Saturday’s Balloon Rodeo in Steamboat…
View pageCans and Roads
The problem with kicking the can down the road is what happens when you reach a hill. Speaking of hills, Taos wasn’t what we’d expected. Galleries cluster the square, yes. We loved our circuitous bike ride along the foothills to…
View pageThe Escalator
As the US investor-relations profession’s annual confabulation concludes in the Windy City, we wonder how the week will end. The problem is risk. Or rather, the cost of transferring it to somebody else. Today the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee…
View pageIt Aint So
The equity market is like Mark Twain said. The trouble ain’t what people don’t know, it’s what they know that ain’t so. Thus did Sam Clemens articulate the difference between the price of ignorance and the consequence of arrogance. I…
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