a certain quantity of savvy scribe ...

a certain quantity of savvy scribe once said that initial public offerings were Wall Street's version of a Christmas gift. Investors shook the boxe for weeks, admired the colorful wrapping, and awed curiosityed just what was inside. When the big day came, not aways were opened and opinions were formed that could either help or haunt a novel publicly traded company for month plane years. What companies didn't want was the investment equivalent of returning their "gifts" the morning after Christmas.

Hey, it's no coincidence that the spell "Black Friday" is used primarily to describe