اطلاعات صحنه: تحلیل مالی و تنظیم صحنه های بازار

Quakes after the boom and bust around the turn of the century and experiences in the sequel of the tousled ‘new economy’ have made the market's dramatic traits painfully visible. Company performances on the stock market face an anxious audience of investors like a drama with a continuously postponed conclusion. This dramatizing of events is also the staging of information where altering assemblages of actors, scenery, and props are framed by the stock market scene where investment decisions are produced. Thus, the theatrical model proposed in this essay is as an outlook from which to examine the vital production and consumption of the information on which stock markets feed. Against this background, the role of the financial analyst is being examined. Neither being one of the leading characters nor part of the investing audience, his part in the drama is a puzzling problem that seems to elude the script of financial theory. Perhaps the most evident implication of the dramatic context would be to view the financial analyst as a critic—a silent messenger between stage and audience that evaluates the quality of the plot and the performance of the main actors (Is management convincing? Is the company story trustworthy?). However, as the drama unfolds, the script falls apart and alters into props and scenery. The silent messenger between actors and audience moves into front stage and challenges the plot, the characters, and the frame. By upsetting the frame that separates the reckonable and controllable from the unknown and ambiguous, the financial analyst forces the market into movement and becomes an active creator of trade.