Foreign investment in China
Several years ago, in the NYSE’s dining room, I watched an amazing display of backslapping as Dick Grasso, then CEO and chairman...
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Sell side Archive
Companies deter sell-side objectivity
Two years after the global settlement between major Wall Street firms, securities regulators and New York attorney general Eliot...
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Emerging market challenges
Alistair Reynolds, Scottish Widows Emerging MarketsFor Alistair Reynolds, there are two types of company in this world: the type...
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Handbag at dawn
Skirmishes between companies and investment analysts are nothing new. The dubious practice of blacklisting analysts who don’t...
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Off the radar
Drinking a potion that makes the hero invisible has always been a successful crowd-pleaser for movie characters. But when...
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Sweet Justice
There has been much talk lately about corporate retaliation against analysts. Sell-side analysts say they get pushed to the end of...
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Small-cap rendezvous
'Smaller companies are being ignored by the business and analyst community; they are slightly unloved.' So said Guy Eastman...
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Analyst antics
Q. If sell-side research comes to be itemized on fund managers' bills, do you think that's really going to improve the quality of...
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Wall Street under reconstruction
Around the time the global settlement with major Wall Street firms was being finalized, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...
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Media mavens
Your CEO is a visionary who is written about in the media every week. The numbers the Street watch like a hawk are Ebitda and cash...
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