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• Stocks and Assets (Part 1) - Editor, 28 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Asset values of stocks are notoriously fickle, and are in constant flux throughout the typical trading day (Net Asset Value, 2007). Azim Premji, founder of one of India’s legendary Information Technology companies, when quizzed about his billionaire status on a day when the local stock market had experienced an exceptionally sharp rise, commented on the fallacy of reading too much in to the transient worth of stocks.

• Stocks and Assets (Part 2) - Editor, 28 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks and Assets (Part 1)

Investment Reviews by Corporations in Which You Hold Stocks

Why is it that executives make more noises about prospective investments than about internal reviews of their past decisions in this area? We read, for example, extensively about Wal Mart’s machinations to enter India, but not much about why they withdrew from Germany and South Korea, with their tails between their legs! The entire globalization story needs a whole new approach when it comes to assessing investment strategies for stocks.

• Is Etiquette Relevant for Stocks? (Part 1) - Editor, 27 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks are inanimate objects, and the best investors have rather ruthless images. It would therefore be normal to conclude that etiquette and the values of stocks are entirely unrelated. True, junior analysts assigned to wealthy private banking customers are careful not to tread on any exotic toes, but by and large, stocks revolve around numbers, charts, and figures.

• Is Etiquette Relevant for Stocks? (Part 2) - Editor, 27 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Is Etiquette Relevant for Stocks? (Part 1)

First impressions on meeting others, wardrobes, correspondence, and table manners are key components of business etiquette (Casperson, 1999). No financial statement makes any mention of these qualitative factors, but they may have much to do with how stocks perform, at least in some sectors. Investors may interact with top executives, with sales people, and other functional personnel in the companies they own, but it is difficult to make dependable assessments. Perhaps that is why companies, which are eager to raise fresh capital through stocks, go the extra mile to expose their personnel to potential investors.

• Stocks to Die For! (Part 1) - Editor, 26 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Entrepreneurial investors, who have held stocks of the innovative biotechnology company Celera of Rockeville, Md, must have heaved a collective sigh of relief when the organization switched tracks from selling genomic information to discovering new drugs. Certainly Applera, which has a controlling stake in Celera, must have had a directive role in the path-breaking decision to change the business model, but even Celera’s founder who was responsible for the information-selling decision in the first place, has been supportive.

• Stocks to Die For! (Part 2) - Editor, 26 September 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks to die for! (Part 1)

New Vistas for Celera Stocks

Investors with appreciation for cutting-edge biotechnology will realize that the best years for companies such as Celera lie ahead. The major business lines of the company (About Us, 2007) are irreplaceable cogs of the unfolding health care scenario. Drugs based on standard molecular configurations will become obsolete, and improved prognoses will benchmark medical practice of the future.

• 750 Stocks Rolled in to One! - Editor, 25 September 2007 - No Comments yet

People, who are not engineers, may not think much about joints, but they are ubiquitous in life. Wood, glass, concrete, metals, and plastics, are some of the conventional materials, which are used in construction, and which need to be joined together or fastened, but science has begun to discover and to develop new materials as well. Fasteners come in all forms and sizes, but their values in engineered products are of universal importance (Messler, 2004).

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