Marketbrief: Here is what you wrote: "With all the desperate attempts to prop it up through press releases and recommendations from third tier shills, seeing $35 seems a safe bet."
News flash for you: issuing press releases is what EVERY corporate p.r. office does, that is one of their principal reasons for being. You can call it a "desperate attempt to prop [their stock price] up" if you'd like, ridiculous as that sounds, or others can more accurately call it doing their job. As for the Gomez news: Gomez releases their ratings every quarter, and just re-named E*Trade as the number one online broker after the previous quarter having dropped them from that post. I regret if the E*Trade p.r. departments unbelievable issuance of a press release on that subject seems egregiously unseemly to a person of your obviously superior sensibilities. I suspect, however, that the E*Trade p.r. folks felt like they were simply doing their jobs as opposed to eating tea and crumpets and looking down their noses at the hoi polloi who, poor creatures, must actually perform a function in society. If I were the E*Trade CEO and they didn't put out a press release on that subject, I probably would have fired them.
I will acknowledge that one can read your above post two different ways, although I don't see how recommendations from "third-tier shills" would somehow hurt the price of a stock (it might not help, but it's hard to imagine how it could hurt; please enlighten how that works), hence my conclusion that you meant that the two initial statements to be connected to E*Trade's actions. |
