Rumour with a view

The chairman puts pay to some unfounded rumours and gets a bit of a buzz out of orchestrating a market whisper

"What does a director of market rumours do exactly?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as I walked into his office for one of the onsite meetings I conduct with him on a similar level of frequency to an FSA supervisor visiting any mid-sized bank with - I believe this is the right euphemism - an unusual business model. "No idea," said the chairman. "Where did you come across that?" "It's written on the door of the office next to yours," I replied. "It says 'Buzz Scuttlebutt, director of market rumours' and, as I say, what with Mr Scuttlebu...