Whatever you're reaching for here, it's quite a reach.
He sent an internal email about politics and it backfired. It's not like he gave a press conference announcing the company was in financial trouble.
He sent an internal email about politics and it backfired. It's not like he gave a press conference announcing the company was in financial trouble.
If he anticipated it would leak and tank the stock wouldn't he have more likely just run it by some folks and sent something less poorly worded?
Another user in this thread pointed out that this seems to be a monthly thing the CEO does, so this no longer appears as strange.
a lot of tech stocks took a beating today[1]. the stock sale, price and email are pretty unrelated
[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-stocks-plunge-for-seco...