As for the British ambassador, the soft-spoken Sir Stephen Wall, he is close to John Major--but for the past two years this has often seemed something of a disadvantage.
The ideal scenario: the yen stabilizing at current levels, the renminbi and the Hong Kong dollar holding firm, and Wall Street and Europe coming in for a soft landing.
The company's stock is languishing in part because Wall Street mistakenly lumps the company in with others in the soft semiconductor industry and in the wireless infrastructure business.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Soft Shuttlecock" drapes its 24-foot-long painted canvas feathers over a stone wall high overhead.
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Though soft economic growth, volatile markets and tighter rules rank as bigger worries for most on Wall Street than the actions of traders, it is hard to ignore the risk completely.
Though soft economic growth, volatile markets and tighter rules rank as bigger worries for most on Wall Street than clawbacks triggered by the actions of traders, it is hard to ignore the risk completely.
Their tools are the soft power of campaign-finance contributions, the revolving door of jobs in government and on Wall Street, and the creation of a culture that equated Wall Street's gain with America's gain.
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Wall Street was poised for a modest recovery after a big retreat on Wednesday following a soft private payrolls report from ADP and another lackluster manufacturing survey from the Institute for Supply Management.
It was another week of shockingly negative economic reports, which you might think has Wall Street economists worried that the economy is running into something more than just a brief soft patch (their popular term of recent weeks).
Soft dollar and commission recapture firms have grown tremendously since the late eighties and have taken a lot of business from Wall Street firms.
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