Part II: What to Expect After a Bear Market Bottoms
May 13, 2009 We think the odds are decent that March 9 marked THE low for the bear market that has been clawing investors since December of 2007. The powerful 37% rally since March 9 and the historic demand driving it, along with the “green shoots” of economic recovery spurring that demand, all suggest that we may have turned the corner. Should that prove to be the case, it doesn’t mean we won’t experience further scary declines. On the contrary, it suggests that we will. Typically, after the market has made a major bear-market bottom you get a powerful rally …
Part I: A Bear Market Bottom?
May 6, 2009 I don’t know if you’ve been following the financial headlines lately (or if, like many, you stopped reading them a few months back out of respect for your mental health). If you haven’t you may not be aware that since March 9 the S&P 500 has risen 37%. That’s right. The stock market has increased in value by over a third in a month. This is the kind of powerful move you typically see as a bear market is dying and a new bull market is being born. To be fair, you can also see this kind …
Open MIC – The Open Media and Information Companies Initiative
On March 11, 2008, Open MIC and the Paley Center for Media hosted a forum in New York on the future of wireless communications. A distinguished panel of speakers examined the emerging wireless business environment, the rules of the road that might evolve for the mobile Internet, and the challenges to ensuring open access for all. You can see video excerpts from the forum here: Jump to video highlights: View Comptroller Thomspon’s comments here Opening remarks Defining “open” and “closed” Access to media and civil rights The industry’s take Net neutrality and wireless (Part 1) and …
Freedom of Expression at Risk
On December 20, 2007, The Seattle Times published an op-ed by Trillium Asset Management Corporation Vice President Farnum Brown and Michael Connor, the executive director of Open Mic, a nonprofit working to promote a vibrant, diverse media ecosystem through market-based solutions. Brown and Connor demanded: COMCAST, Verizon, and AT&T need to come clean. Those three – and other cable and telephone companies – need to disclose exactly how they decide to restrict the freedom of expression of hundreds of millions of Americans. They need to explain exactly how they decide to limit Americans’ access to the Internet and other information services. …
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