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• What Should the Stock Market Make of Environmental Concerns? - Editor, 21 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Has ‘green’ become a bad word in the stock market? Certainly, executives and analysts display rare unity when it is time to heap scorn on non governmental organizations and assorted activists, for their persistent environmental concerns. Are these people really adversaries of stock market culture, and should we continue to treat them with scant respect?

• Why No Stock Market Can Ignore Geo-Politics - Editor, 17 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Relations between big business and government are matters of great controversy, though the stock market has steered clear of any direct stand on the matter. It could be fair to say that most small investors believe that politics and economics do not mix, and every nexus between influential owners of corporations and people who run countries, is at the cost of citizens. Certainly, no administration will admit to liaisons with powerful executives, and there are stringent punishments for corrupt managers as well.

• How Strategic Audit Bridges Stock Market and Executive Interests - Editor, 16 August 2007 - No Comments yet

It was way back in July/August of 1995 that Gordon Donaldson of the Harvard Business School espoused the cause of Strategic Audit in seminal fashion. His concern then was to strengthen the hands of Boards in reviewing company performance in critical manners, without causing affront to functioning executives. Now, in a new millennium, it is time for the stock market to take up similar cudgels.

• How Stock Market Hounds Smell Bad Loans - Editor, 15 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Let the stock market call a spade a spade, because euphemisms tend to breed dangerous complacency! Bulls and bears are part of stock market life, but classic lessons from abominable errors are not to be lost. They say that history repeats itself, so every repeat stock market boom is welcome. However, history does not prevent anyone from learning, and what better lesson than a crash? The latter could be too acerbic a term for the sub-prime story, but it is grave enough from a process perspective.

• Why the Stock Market May Find the Technology Shelter Flimsy - Editor, 14 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Why is it that the typical stock market investor trusts things he or she does not understand? Show investors figures, projections, and tables-things with which they have lived all their professional lives, and they are the hardest nuts you can find anywhere! Then a new kid comes along with an idea about which no one truly has a clue, and all of a sudden capital chases this person from all directions!

• A Low Key Gold Rush on the Indian Stock Market - Editor, 9 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Indians, like the Chinese, have an insatiable appetite for gold. They may hoard additional quantities of it when the stock market is in the doldrums, but do not liquidate holdings even in the fiercest bull-run. The average Indian wedding turns the occasion in to a kind of Fort Knox, with the yellow metal in evidence everywhere, especially on women!

• A Marketing Update for Stock Market Wizards - Editor, 8 August 2007 - No Comments yet

Finance professionals dominate the stock market scene, and though some of the younger players, or ones with exposure to sectors such as retail banking, may have some exposure to marketing, the veterans of analyzing securities have traditionally steered clear of anything to do with customers.

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