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The size of a company’s financial reports is a better indicator of market volatility than the reports’ content. Professor…
The world of financial trading remains something of a mystery to the average person. Every day, stocks are traded at a frenzied rate and decisions are made that have wide reaching repercussions for us…
Higher advertising spending does not protect share prices from bad news, according to new research by the University of Georgia…
On April 23, the US stock market suddenly lost 1.5% of its value after news of an attack on the White House quickly spread from the (hacked) Twitter account of the Associated Press news agency. Within…
The speed increase of stock trading from microseconds to nanoseconds leads to an increase in order cancellations and is otherwise…
Rupert Murdoch recently told owners of 62% of the equity in News Corporation that they had no business in corporate decision-making. The company employees in excess of 50,000 people and has revenues of…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission was right to step in to regulate short-selling during the 2008 financial crisis…
If I were a shareholder in Foster’s, which is facing a hostile takeover bid from global brewer SABMiller, there are three questions that I would ask myself before deciding whether to sell my stake. First…



