ANALYSIS: Why do shareholders appoint a patsy to their boards just before their companies fail?
An engorged whale carcass was found floating belly-up off the western coast of Australia last week.
A monkey throwing darts to pick stocks would have outperformed Donald Trump's hotel and casino business in the 1990s, Warren Buffett pointed out this week.
Forsyth Barr analyst Andy Bowley isn't alone in this view.
Imagine being given the chance to run an organisation you think could do better.
“All that glisters is not gold,” warned wise man William Shakespeare 420 years ago in The Merchant of Venice.
Few remnants of that old swashbuckling and chaotic pre-1987 share market crash era are still listed on NZX and the few that remain would be unrecognisable to their founders. With special feature audio.
Human nature being what it is, it isn't hard for Shoeshine to imagine investors, particularly retail investors, doing all the wrong things during these Brexit-plagued times. With special feature audio.
In the animal kingdom, small creatures use a range of defence mechanisms when threatened by those that view them as prey.
At this point don't rule anything out. Don't rule anything in either.