Jack Grubman, a Salomon Smith Barney star analyst, even sat in on board meetings at WorldCom, a deeply corrupt telecoms firm, offering advice.

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The New York attorney has charged former Salomon star telecoms analyst Jack Grubman with being at the centre of a scheme that bribed executives with shares of hot new stocks in exchange for lucrative investment banking business.

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The 7-foot-1 retired basketball star and NBA analyst is expected to be one of 1, 100 students who will don graduation gowns at a ceremony in Miami, the school said.

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John Kinnucan would have probably been a better TV reality star than an expert network analyst.

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"Money is still seeking the relative safety of blue chips, and it is by no means a sign of great investor confidence, " says John Schloegel, an analyst at All-Star Fund Trader.

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Guys who are long never want to see a bear case get built for their holdings, but John Ayling, an analyst at Morningstar, has a painful two star rating on the stock.

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Analyst Gerald Steinberg says this crisis may bring down the current defense minister, Amir Peretz, a rising star in the Labor Party who was given the defense post despite a lack of experience.

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