Who Is Selling
What happens if your price is down and no one appears to be selling? You may first think, “Impossible!” but read on to understand the powerful difference that can be made in your IR strategy by using various tools when…
View pageWhat happens if your price is down and no one appears to be selling? You may first think, “Impossible!” but read on to understand the powerful difference that can be made in your IR strategy by using various tools when…
View page“People are getting screwed because they can’t imagine a microsecond.” Well, how about $1 trillion? Can we imagine that? If you want context for the quote, read Michael Lewis’s book, Flash Boys (No. 1 now in NY Times nonfiction). Equally…
View pageIs you is, or is you ain’t, my constituents? If you know cinema’s Coen Brothers and the epically hilarious 2000 movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou,” you’re smiling. You remember the scene, the southern accent. In geopolitics, a sweeping referendum…
View pageNot though the soldier knew someone had blundered. Alfred Tennyson’s 1854 poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” offers lines more recognized than this one above including “into the valley of death rode the six hundred,” and “theirs not to…
View pageMayday! That’s the word quarterback Peyton Manning should’ve used Sunday, instead of Omaha! But we congratulate Coach Pete Carroll, a gentleman, and his bruisers from the Puget Sound. Speaking of bruising, earnings season and macro factors collided like particles in…
View pageOmaha! Rather than Nebraska, we’re in Steamboat Springs enjoying spectacular slopes before this weekend’s big game between our Broncos and the Seahawks. Denver quarterback Peyton Manning uses the word “Omaha” to change plays or alert his team to shifting defensive…
View pageHappy New Year! Hope you spent the two-week break from these pages joyfully. We’ve descended this week from the high Denver backbone of the continent to visit west in Santa Monica and sponsor NIRI’s Fundamentals of IR program. Following our…
View pageToday a new era begins. One day in May 1792, 24 brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in lower New York City and agreed to confederate in conducting their stock-in-trade. Thus began the New York Stock Exchange. Today, the NYSE…
View pageWe were in Kansas again. We set a personal record, visiting the state twice last week. Even Wichita is nice this time of year, as this photo shows Saturday from our downtown Hyatt Regency room on the Arkansas River –…
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