The exact point i was going to make,corporate news has done us,'no favours',with their blackout.

Company officials said they had no corporate news to account for the advance.

Also picked up some corporate news from a newsletter: it seemed that Dolmacher had a new boss.

Most Germans were too conservative to buy stocks and were not much interested in corporate news.

With a host of corporate news, the market scarcely knows which way to turn.

"There's a great constituency for lots of other content besides corporate financial news," he said.

In the United States, that kind of corporate news might be seen as routine.

But big personalities and big corporate news stole the show this week.

If anything, the economic and corporate news has only gotten worse recently.

Monday's plunge in the markets was driven in part by more bad corporate news.