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...idea he would get the smoking guns that materialized. Merrill Lynch complied promptly, perhaps unaware of the documents' incriminating nature. Over six weeks in March and April, the investment bank sent 30 big boxes of e-mail, snapshots from the hard drives of Internet-company analyst Henry Blodget and his team...
Spitzer is still working out the details of a separate case against five CEOs, calling on them to return profits made from stock offerings arranged by Salomon Smith Barney. On the basis of another roundup of e-mail, Spitzer says that Jack Grubman, then Salomon's chief telecommunications analyst, engaged with the executives in "spinning," a practice whereby a bank allocates hot, essentially risk-free shares in companies about to go public to CEOs of prospective clients. In return, the CEOs give the bank business, confident that, in turn, their own stocks will receive favorable ratings. It was from this...
Recession-squeezed automakers salivate at the thought of persuading even more buyers to customize by offering easy, accessible options online. In a study published this month, Forrester Research analyst Baba Sheddy found that 66% of prospective buyers customized vehicles while researching price online. In a bid to turn speculative customizers into real ones, Toyota's Scion, Honda's Element and Saturn's Ion will let customers order personalized cars on their websites with touches like aluminum pedals and gearshifts, and springs that adjust the car's height. Because young buyers "want something that says, 'I'm unique,'" says Toyota...
...People are going to have to live without beluga caviar for a while if we are going to have any hope of rescuing the species," says Lisa Speer, senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a spokeswoman for a sturgeon-hugging coalition that calls itself Caviar Emptor...
...which wants to double its almost 1 million bbl. daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All this action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. Says Al Stanton, an oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous...