“Top executives from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Qualcomm gathered Thursday at the White House … to field ideas for securing American dominance in AI, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing and … 5G.” https://t.co/x3MkeTrI9b #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2018
“80% of the daily moves in US stocks are machine-led, a fund manager told CNBC …. The phenomenon, also called algorithm or algo trading, refers to market transactions that use advanced mathematical models to make high-speed trading decisions.” https://t.co/mzLZ3PuRWf #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2018
anti-takeover provisions: “our findings support the long-term value creation hypothesis and reject the management entrenchment hypothesis” https://t.co/WyuNAXmZqY #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2018
“if you take this stuff seriously enough then it does seem like large diversified shareholders—index funds but also other mutual funds—would pose a problem under the antitrust laws, and you’d have to do something about them” https://t.co/kElOJhOKSM #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 7, 2018
GM “promised … the UAW that it would ‘not close, idle, nor … dispose of … any plant.’ In what unions are describing as an attempt to get around the contract, GM said … plants in Ohio, Maryland, & Michigan would be ‘unallocated'” https://t.co/ROcBCfUTmY #corpgov
— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) December 8, 2018