Maybe a Chinese Wall restriction prohibits the sharing of such information, but that is not clear.
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In that fashion Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch is one who offers direction and sometimes contributes a paragraph here and there to a prospectus, blurring the line between security analysis and investment banking, which is supposed to be ethically separated by a Chinese wall.
Among other things, the bill led to a so-called "Chinese Wall" separating communication between investment bank research analysts and underwriters.
"The American banks wanted to get a piece of Chinese banks because they knew the Chinese were quite capable of avoiding Wall Street to raise capital, " said Charles Geisst, a finance professor at Manhattan College and the author of several books on Wall Street history.
There was a rumour, later denied that Great Wall Motor (also Chinese) was also talking to Swedish Auto about investing.
At Credit Suisse First Boston the Chinese wall separating investment bankers from analysts was straddled by a single boss, Frank Quattrone.
At Credit Suisse First Boston (nyse: CSR - news - people ), the Chinese wall separating investment bankers from analysts was straddled by a single boss, Frank Quattrone .
There are many fascinating aspects to the tale, which has just taken a new turn with a report in the Wall Street Journal that the automaker will be giving Chinese workers significant raises to get them back to work.
Mr. Lee later told The Wall Street Journal that he is looking for Chinese investment to fund a toll road needed to bring high-technology investment to Bellevue.
As Light in the Box moves toward going public in the U.S. at a time when few venture-backed Chinese companies are getting out of the gate, it helps to have a strategy that Wall Street can grasp.
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Amy Chua created quite a stir this weekend when people caught wind of her wildly controversial essay in the Wall Street Journal on how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.
For Chinese companies there is a certain prestige that comes with listing on a U.S. exchange, and Wall Street certainly has the incentive to keep serving up as much product as they can with investors clamoring for a piece of the well-documented emerging market growth story.
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The paper's comments, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, refer to a saga that has been brewing for a while, in which Chinese customers have claimed they're not receiving the same quality of after-sales care as those in the US. These allegations were given prominence in a recent show on national TV, prompting Apple to rebut them in a press release.
Meanwhile, the elegantly restrained, two-story Chinese restaurant Lu Yu, courtesy of LTW, avoids the trap of obvious chinoiserie: Stacked abacuses line a wall near the entrance, while pale celadon porcelain bricks adorn the upstairs entryway.
Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini, respectively president of the Eurasia Group and a professor at New York University, pointed out in The Wall Street Journal last week that 39 of the 42 Chinese companies listed among the Fortune 500 are state-owned, and three-quarters of China's 100 largest publicly traded companies are state-controlled.
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