ANALYSIS: As New Zealand investors and borrowers get comfortable with the asset class, concerns are growing across the Tasman.
Eroad shareholders must have had their hearts in their mouths last week when the company's share price seemingly fell off a cliff.
Peter Lynch once said insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise.
“That's it, after the Rugby World Cup I'm definitely ditching Sky.”
When Smithfield Foods was bought out by a Chinese firm in 2013, its CEO reportedly had to answer to his mother, who asked why he sold to the communists.
There haven't been many failed takeover offers in recent times that Shoeshine can look back in hindsight.
The local sharemarket has more than its fair share of highly illiquid, small or medium-sized companies that don't attract much analyst coverage, if any at all.
Shoeshine must be getting old.
Fonterra was quick to respond last week when ratings agency Standard & Poor's put the co-operative on credit watch.
The sharemarket is suddenly looking busier in terms of corporate activity, with a few more initial public offers inching their way into the pipeline.