Companies like QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire are attacking this weakness head on by providing data analysis and visualization capabilities that allow end-users to assemble data, connect it, and explore it.

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Another key finding from our analysis: Shareholders at these companies were well aware of the relative weakness of these boards and had expressed their dissatisfaction by withholding votes from many of these individuals the year before these companies collapsed.

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The relative strength (RS) analysis has been declining (line b) since September, consistent with the weakness in XLF.

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