Forgive the obviousness of this question but, what if actors who are interested in affecting our stock market and economy more generally are motivated, not by making money, but by some larger strategic interest?
If they continue to permit excessive executive pay, it would then be reasonable to be worried that there is a fundamental flaw in our version of stock market capitalism.
Individual investors have become more optimistic about the stock market, as is evident in our weekly Sentiment Survey.
"The strength of Nasdaq's brand and its pre-eminent position in the US equity market will make our single-stock futures offering a compelling choice for both retail and institutional customers in the US, as well as in Europe and beyond, " said Liffe chairman Brian Williamson.
Now, with Obama back to his populist Pablum, our economy and stock market are stuck again in idle.
Every Presidential election has major implications, but in our opinion this one should have little impact on the stock market.
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You may have had a bad year in the market, but the contestants in our annual stock picking contest have had a positively rotten one.
So, while the stock market clearly remains in a downtrend, our take on the tea leaves is we managed to move away from panic-mode on Tuesday.
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At the time, our forecast was that the stock market would tumble in 2008.
An improvement in their economy would certainly be a positive for our economy and stock market.
When active managers of equity funds claim to have a way of uncovering extra value in our highly (but not perfectly) efficient U.S. stock market, investors will look at their past records, consider the managers' strategies and invest or not.
Our estimate is about in line with the current market price of the stock.
Good news: our stock tip column beat the market, for the fourth year in a row.
Or that fears over protectionism, and misguided policies--including cheapening the dollar as a way to improve our trade balances--triggered the 1987 stock market crash, in which equities lost more than 20% of their value in one day?
Cloud-based CRM software constitutes around 63% of our estimate for Salesforce.com stock, and its market share in the CRM market has rapidly increased from around 7% in 2006 to 14% in 2010, and we estimate that it could continue to increase to around 25% by the end of Trefis forecast period.
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Our basic idea is motivated by the stock market performance of minority investors in publicly held subsidiaries in Japan.
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"If we are ourselves taking advantage of the stock market as a listed company, we should demonstrate our belief in the system by investing there, " he argues.
There could be a downside of 20% to our price estimate for RIM stock if its market share growth remains pressured in the years ahead and reaches 5% by the end of our forecast period (vs. our base estimate of 7%).
But on the other side of the aisle, our furry friends in the bear camp are becoming adamant that this happy-go-lucky stock market environment simply CANNOT!
"It's very clear to me we're in the midst of a market controlled by fear and rumors, and short sellers are driving our stock down, " Mack said in a memorandum to employees Wednesday.
The 1973-74 stock market crash wiped out 48% from American equities similar to the 52% losses in our own Great Recession.
When asked to explain his sudden increase in wealth at a press conference soon after our annual billionaire rankings were published, he reportedly said, "The stock market goes up ... and down, " and noted that his fortune could quickly drop.
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