Knutsford was a tiny Manchester-based leather goods manufacturer, effectively a shell with a recently-acquired stock market quotation. |
He was very fidgety, he had a pager with him at all times, which he was checking the stock market quotes on, the movements within the day. |
It is no wonder that the bosses of small companies are wary of treading the stock market path. |
At the height of the dotcom boom, cash shells were all the rage as fledgling companies with little more than an idea rushed to the stock market. |
This plan has involved disposing of non-core assets and seeking separate stock market quotes for businesses that can be ring-fenced. |
Other Irish companies with stock market quotes in the US have also suffered heavy downgrades by the market. |