The Market and Corporate Governance

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Who is “the Market”? Or rather, how does the stock market work? Why does it react as it does? Why is our stock valued as it is? What do investors really want out of us? Board directors and executive managers at times have a strained relation to a stock market they view as short-sighted, moody and that infringes on their valuable time. Many are genuinely unsure of what makes this unruly monster tick and others…