Delayed opening

Categories: Trading, Stocks, Bonds

There are a whole gaggle of reasons stock openings can be delayed. Key nuggets of information not fully, globally digested yet…like the CEO resigning. Yeah, that’s a good one. How about the government indicting the company for fraud. That’s another good one.

Or what about the company pre-announcing they’re going to miss earnings by $14 a share. A big power outage on the east coast? Yep, that can do it too. Some computer malware sent by our kindly loving trading partners. You betcha.

Openings get delayed for good reason, because if all of the information isn’t fairly disseminated, a whole lot of people who should be selling their shares at $38.32 a share ended up selling them for 22 bucks, and will have been financially, uh…damaged.

The whole notion of a fair and orderly market is arguably the single best thing about the way capital markets work in America versus almost anywhere else in the world. The day the country loses its trust from the people who participate in the investing community, well, that’s pretty much the end of everything we know in a capitalist society.

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here who looks like this bird's going miss its earnings

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number now the company was supposed to divulge all the

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information but it looks like they left out one little

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key Important fact the ceo is resigning Ouch Yeah that

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smarts So the stock closed yesterday at forty two And

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it's indicated at like thirty bucks a share here And

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all the geese are scrambling to create what's called an

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orderly market roughly matched or even sets of buyers and

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sellers all coming together to transact Unfortunately there were so

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many sellers The g's just couldn't keep things in order

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So things air delayed So there are a whole gaggle

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Of reasons a stock openings can be delayed in real

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life Key nuggets of information not fully globally digested yet

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like you know that little thing about the ceo resigning

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and that's a good one How about the government indicting

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the company for fraud Yeah that's Another good one Or

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what about the company Pre announcing that they're going to

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miss earnings by fourteen dollars a share A big power

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outage on the east coast Yeah that could do it

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too well Some computer malware sent by our kindly loving

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trading partners overseas you betcha Well openings get delayed for

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good reason Because if all of the information isn't fairly

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disseminated well ah whole lot of people who should be

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selling their shares at thirty eight thirty two a share

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ended up selling him for twenty two bucks and will

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have been financially you know damaged The whole notion of

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a fair and orderly market is arguably the single best

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thing about the way capital markets work in america versus

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almost anywhere else in the world Like we trust our

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system mostly the day the country loses its trust from

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the people who participate in the investing community Well that's

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pretty much the end of everything we know in a

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capitalist society is that right comrades and getting go quack

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