Weisel's firm helped oversee 79 stock underwritings and 14 merger-and-acquisitions deals last year.

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Schwab doesn't do stock underwritings, and it rates 30% of the 3, 500 stocks it follows a sell, the same fraction it rates a buy.

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Corporate finance honchos dictated what analysts should write about specific underwritings.

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