Those massive corporate profits were led by???? The oil companies, banks, and wall street companies.
The news comes as some Wall Street companies, such as Goldman Sachs, are expected to hand out record or near-record bonuses in 2009--even though the government had to step in last fall to rescue the U.S. financial industry.
On Tuesday, he said the Fed would consider extending its direct lending window to Wall Street companies (aka, primary dealers typically not allowed to borrow directly from the Fed) beyond a mid-September deadline to promote stability, as long as short-term debt markets continue to be severely constrained by the credit crisis.
Wall Street likes companies with predictable earnings and steady growth.
Looking beyond Microsoft, which does make profits, to the hordes of new Internet companies that do not, Wall Street is rewarding companies (and enriching their owner-managers) almost entirely on the basis of the firms' prospects for acquiring a big share of the market (which market, exactly, remains to be seen).
The turmoil on Wall Street is prompting companies to get their share prices under control.
Could this mean the hepatitis C market is smaller than Wall Street and drug companies expect?
Saving jobs was a radical break at a time when Wall Street was cheering companies such as Delta for cutting 15, 000 jobs.
We tried to strip away regulations so that Wall Street and insurance companies and oil companies were free to do whatever they pleased.
In 2006, just after Chantix hit the market, Pfizer's chief marketer, Ian Read, warned Wall Street that insurance companies don't view smoking treatments as something they need to pay for.
An article in the Wall Street Journal says companies like Fox and Disney (which owns ESPN) are going to be fighting harder than ever to secure the rights to the games.
On Wall Street, gorillas are companies so big and strong they have few competitors.
We already tried stripping away rules and regulations that kept Wall Street banks and oil companies in bounds.
If Dell accelerates this transformation, the interim numbers will look really ugly, and Wall Street is unkind to companies with ugly numbers.
Also, various regulations had made smaller public companies uneconomical for Wall Street firms to research, while other regulations restricted the ability of companies preparing to go public to communicate with potential investors.
This crisis produced a big fall in the value of American companies on Wall Street.
We tried giving insurance companies and Wall Street a free rein to do whatever they pleased.
Insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street were given free license to do what they pleased.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Green Bay, WI
Insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street were given free rein to do whatever they pleased.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event, Boulder, CO
We tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street the license to do whatever they pleased.
We tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street a free license, do whatever you please.
We tried letting insurance companies and oil companies, Wall Street do whatever they pleased, giving them free license.
We tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street free rein to do whatever they pleased.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Hilliard, OH
According to The Wall Street Journal, the two companies are mulling the possibility of bidding for 66.6% of Olimpia.
We tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street the free license to do whatever they pleased.
We tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and Wall Street a free license to do whatever they pleased.
As it turned out, both companies disappointed Wall Street, for different reasons.
All in, Wall Street was expecting the combined companies to make about 30 cents more next year, Citi estimates.
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The Senate bill is a political document intended to assuage a public rightfully angry about the taxpayer bailouts of car companies and Wall Street.
In the financial crisis, Congress rushed to fix all the big businesses, the Wall Street banks, the insurance companies, but Main Street businesses are still in crisis.
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