The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fe...
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the...
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...
When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash resu...
Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform...
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'
Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.
Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.
Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.
