The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Worst Press (6/9)

Posted on: 09, Jun, 2011

Nokia was badly hurt by poor earnings and rumors of a takeovers. CVS suffered from a report by Fox Business the organized crime has hurt retail margins. EMC division RSA suffers major hack data breach. The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at the NY Innovation Design Lab (nyidlab). It was used as a general metric to evaluate companies and their risk in the media. Publicly traded Fortune 500 companies are used as a measure to calculate an overall market of negative news and the compa...

Tags: general , research , aet , cvs , fdx

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