| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Brewing Yamatetsu Tea |
| Date: | Mon, 4 May 1998 15:32:28 -0400 |
going on all today, apparently nearly everyone has shown up *in person*
instead of just holographic tele-presence. That's almost as bad as a full,
confidential, in-person meeting of the Corporate Court up in Z-O.
Early rumor coming out is that "Buttercup" the free spirit is supposedly
leading some sort of power play. Seems she (I guess it's a she <shrug>)
has control over something like a full quarter of Yama stock, either
herself, through proxies, through threats/bargains, or simply because of
voters sympathetic to her. Can't get hard numbers though, sorry.
Internal Yamatetsu records that I've managed to weasel out indicate that
Buttercup has been pushing hard on the pro-metahuman rights front from
within; which might be why the new young orc board member hasn't been
elvis-ed right from the start. Didn't have enough votes to do anything
significant though, at least not until now. Yamatetsu is considered to be
the most progressive of the Big 8 (which doesn't say that much)and maybe
it's because of her efforts.
Hell, maybe Buttercup has enough juice to become the first free spirit in
charge of a megacorp. That would send the entire Japanese nation into a
collective hysterical fit, even more so than having an ork as their CEO.
This has all clearly hurt their stock value; they've nearly slipped to the
bottom 8 spot below Shiawase on the Big ladder just by stock valuation
alone. In fact, it was plummeting so bad (down 30 points by mid-morning on
Friday) that the primary Yamatetsu stocks were pulled from active trading;
they didn't even open up today.
Whatever is going on at that board meeting had better turn things around,
and fast.]<<<<<
-- the Marketeer <15:21:22/05-02-59>
