On the one hand we find preposterous the proposition, offered four years ago in the Wall Street Journal by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, that stocks should be trading at maybe 100 times earnings.
The RBI also coped with big and potentially destabilising capital inflows in the euphoric years before Wall Street began to totter, and has avoided a domestic financial crisis despite fast growth in banks' assets for many years.
After its latest earnings report, where the company revealed margin expansion for the first time in two years, Wall Street has once again gone bullish.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive JohnThainJohn Thain told analysts during a conference call.
That industry had boomed in recent years by using Wall Street money to make risky home loans, confident that rising home prices would paper over any problems.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive John Thain told analysts during a conference call.
If there is one thing that I have learned for sure in my 45 years on Wall Street it is this: When the crowd agrees, it is always wrong.
The surge in share prices on Wall Street over the past three years has lured in foreign investors and reduced overseas investment by Americans, thereby boosting the dollar.
At the 92nd Street Y, a school that gained a fair amount of notoriety for its role in the Wall Street research scandal a few years back, kids are engaged in an archeology "dig" and sculpture projects, among other things.
Y. on Long Island, has hosted a rising flow of patients in recent years, among them Wall Street pros who have just failed a physical and learned some staggering news: They are infected with hepatitis C.
One hopes that we both made a difference and helped open the door for Sallie Krawcheck, many years our junior, even in inhospitable Wall Street where the number of women at the top is still almost negligible.
It looks like Dell is taking a rather drastic step to attempt to cut some of the costs that have been dragging it down in recent years, with The Wall Street Journal now reporting that the company plans to sell "most -- and possibly all -- of its factories" within the next 18 months -- if it can find some buyers, that is.
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On at least one occasion in recent years, he has personally run short on funds as chronicled in the Wall Street Journal when he was selling off his yachts, planes and wine collection.
In this murkiness, Catz and Phillips, tapped from low-profile Wall Street jobs years ago, wield enormous clout in divergent styles.
His global firm can thank him for the way he steered a prudent course through the worst crisis in Wall Street in 80 years.
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However, the questionable quality of so much of the advice supplied by Wall Street in recent years suggests that they might not be missing much.
Fidelity had in recent years snagged market share from Wall Street giants like UBS and Morgan Stanley as investors flocked to more affordable, online-based services during the recession.
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The bursting of the Internet bubble, several years of unfriendly public markets and changes in Wall Street and financial regulations have been hard on venture capital over the past decade.
Both decisions reinforce trends that have been changing Wall Street in recent years: the switch from physical to electronic markets and the dispersal of operations away from lower Manhattan into the suburban areas of the greater New York metropolis and beyond.
Mr. Ma spent more than four years knocking on doors on Wall Street and in Washington, D.
After years in the doldrums, spring has sprung on Wall Street.
Some would disagree. ( Count the pope among them.) Even with an effort to increase Wall Street regulation in recent years, critics say it has not been enough.
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Singapore has been considering selling its stake in Virgin for several years and has talked with Delta about a sale in the past, according to The Wall Street Journal.
In the two years of BATS' existence, Wall Street has flocked to its side.
In the years since then, Sylla says, Wall Street has taken steps to prevent another Black Monday.
The sport has grown explosively in recent years thanks to its growing popularity among Wall Street titans.
Meredith Whitney, an analyst with a reputation for prescience, thinks up to 80, 000 jobs could go on Wall Street in the next two years.
After serving in the Army for three years in a European intelligence unit, he joined The Wall Street Journal as a staff writer where he spent 11 years covering business and finance.
But when I first put forth this idea of a relationship between clutch hitting and a pitcher choking in a Wall Street Journal column several years ago, I got a call from Jim Bouton.
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Example: Her new book no longer tacks 11 years onto her 7-year Wall Street stint, or claims a current Commodity Trading Advisor license that in fact lapsed years ago.
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