And property accounts for a lot of loans, too, close to 20%, according to csfb.
Some analysts later downgraded the stock, as did CSFB, but not until May 2002.
But the documents raise interesting questions not just about CSFB, but about the Massachusetts regulators.
At CSFB , executives insist that its Tokyo-based employees had only delayed, not derailed any investigation.
CSFB, its investment-banking subsidiary, this week said it would lay off a further 1, 750 staff.
At CSFB, compliance chief Stuart Breslow, poached from Morgan Stanley, operates two rungs below the chief executive.
Despite his warnings over the impact of the Malaysian operation PK Basu at CSFB thinks there is.
CSFB's Meyer expects Wendy's and McDonald's to further expand their menu options to maximize the revenue-generating capacity of each franchise.
CSFB's salary costs ten percentage points above an already fearsome average on Wall Street, of 50% of a bank's revenue.
The Japanese government seems determined to make an example of CSFB because of its prominent position in international financial markets.
CSFB, a Swiss-American investment bank, says it recently arranged a complex financial deal with 100 or so potential institutional investors.
But also because Grohe is owned by two private equity firms, TPG (Texas Pacific Group) and CSFB (Credit Suisse First Boston).
Applied Micro Circuits (nasdaq: AMCC - news - people) also took a big hit after a CSFB downgrade.
CSFB, a unit of Credit Suissse Group (nyse: CSR - news - people ), said no criminal investigation is warranted.
CSFB's staff from 5, 000 to 28, 000 in five years, and had signed separate profit-share deals with many business groups to make them stay.
The smoking gun--or guns--are apparently e-mails showing that CSFB investment bankers touted biased stock research as a marketing edge in drumming up new clients.
Frank Quattrone, a former star technology banker at CSFB, was convicted of obstructing justice and other offences in relation to another bout of file-shredding.
But Stone left CSFB amid controversy when his division hit losses.
The Langone group named John Mack , former head of CSFB and Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ), as its spokesman.
Mr Quattrone has said he was simply instructing CSFB staff to follow the bank's policy of routinely purging outdated documents, and did not intend to obstruct the investigation.
Frank Quattrone, who until recently worked at CSFB, where he was a star technology-industry banker, was charged last week with the criminal offence of obstructing a grand-jury investigation.
CSFB's figures almost certainly exaggerate the direct impact of the attacks, not least since any lost output will partly be offset by more spending on rebuilding, security and defence.
" CSFB cut Nortel to "buy" from "strong buy, " and it also cut PMC-Sierra (nasdaq: PMCS - news - people) to a "hold" from a "buy.
At this stage of the game, it's fairly apparent that not just CSFB but nearly every bank on Wall Street was giving favorable research coverage to nearly every company it brought public.
The question, of course, is what happens when it picks up, as it surely will (a risk-appetite index compiled by CSFB is almost as high as it was at previous market peaks).
CSFB, thinks that discretionary spending on fine jewellery and other luxuries will be the first to dry up and take the longest to recover, just as it did after the Gulf war.
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