If the inflationary pressures that the Fed moved to relieve this week with its upward nudge to interest rates do not abate, or if the mood on Wall Street should shift, or if investors start to run from the dollar, or if domestic debt turns bad, or all of the above, the economy might look a lot less pretty by polling day than it does now.
As the competition for talented young professionals increases, it will be interesting to see how the alleged culture shift on Wall Street impacts recruiting.
Wall Street underwent a tectonic shift in this last presidential campaign.
We estimate that, along with Wall Street reforms, a shift to algorithmic and electronic trading will fuel growth in the average daily trading volume of energy contracts at CME from about 1.7 million in 2010 to 3.7 million by 2017.
The prevailing mood on Wall Street has had a dramatic shift in the last week as concerns over too much complacency have been replaced by a high degree of investor fear in just two days of trading.
The shift can be seen on Wall Street, where investment banks' equity strategists have raced to increase their targets for where stocks will end the year.
The gentleman banker's renaissance reflects a broader shift in the balance of power on Wall Street and in the City of London, principally at the expense of the traders.
Apple's cash shift is unlikely to have major ripple effects on Wall Street, however.
FedEx reported a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street expectations, a signal that customers worldwide continue to shift to cheaper transportation.
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For those still denying the shift of financial advisors (and their assets) leaving Wall Street for the independent world look no further than Hightower Advisors.
So this gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street.
Money managers seeking to explain less than stellar performances of recent years (or shift the blame) could admit they too have been misled by tainted Wall Street research.
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If however, the company announces a bold shift in strategy and a higher than expected number of initial shipments, Wall Street analysts may need to adjust their models accordingly and that could result in massive short squeeze.
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