/biz/ - Business & Finance

Why are investors, in general, such emotional people? I've been following stocks for about a decade now and a consistent thing I've noticed is that a stock missing earnings estimates by less than 1% will often send the price down by 5% or more. It's like these shareholders aren't even reading the earnings reports and are just going off the sensational headlines the media puts out.

Do you think any millennials will start enough giant tech megacorp after Zuckerberg? I'm not sure why but I don't think I see it happening. It kinda seems like all the low hanging fruit in tech has been picked and everything that comes in the future will be pretty niche and easily acquired by Facebook, Google or Amazon. Thots?

How is it that billionaires who control huge conglomerates aren't exploding with euphoria 24/7? I always see these pics of Zuckerberg and he doesn't even look happier than the average person. If I were in that position I'd probably just be rolling around on the floor grimacing and flailing my arms around while imagining myself as some kind of Godzilla-sized mech rampaging through the streets of San Francisco.

Anyone else here wonder about this?