Welcome to my Blog!

After months of sorting our way through various versions of our new corporate website  (thanks for your patience) we´re finally here. As part of our new website each of the analysts have our own webpage as well as blogs. We´ll also be introducing live chat as well as communities in the coming months.

Blogs are an interesting option to writing a weekly article and from an editorial standpoint also a little more open-ended. I'll be using this space to provide my ongoing opinion (I always have one if you haven´t noticed) on the various happenings of the week and even provide you some insight on what I think about certain topics de jour (of the day).

Before I get too deep in to this whole process though I´ll warn you now...I´m ON VACATION FOR 2 WEEKS!!! Believe me, I need it. Time to recharge the batteries so to speak. For those of you who are curious, when asked what I´m doing or where I´m going I simply state ´COMATOSE!´ Yes that´s right comatose. I have a few things to do but other than that my days will consist of nothing more strenuous than getting out of bed and heading down to the beach at my cottage (if that). No phone, no cable, no laptop or Blackberry. And if I´m really lucky...no people! I´m far from antisocial but being in the public eye as we are it´s nice to just tune out now and then and pretend like you´re the only human in the world for a while (until I need supplies of course, then I´ll have to face actual people at the local grocery store).

This is the first time in a long while I´ll have nothing planned and nowhere to go so I´m looking forward to it. For those of you who will also be taking time off - enjoy it!

To everyone else - see you in two weeks. Be well and stay safe!

Arrivaderci tutti quanti, ci vediamo - Goodbye for now everyone, see you soon!

Michael