My father's first mobile was a Reliance CDMA. It was best at the time and had reception better than even BSNL at some places due to its technology. Look at where it is now after 2008. Nobody know in which air did its valuation vanished, let alone the fate of its employees.. Economists and traders would only see numbers and short-forms like PE etc. The real happening would be out there among the common people, the real aftereffects, for which these same economist would then be blaming on govts for various reasons... weirder than a virus world i'd say..