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...appreciate the industry's alluring economics, consider that 90 small, privately held companies have started up to exploit the low-price market; a few years ago, only 10 such firms existed. "The stars are aligned for tobacco stocks," says Bonnie Herzog, a tobacco analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston. "Everything is working in their favor...
Later, commencement speaker Robert E. Rubin ‘60 offered graduates a lesson in decision-making and “thinking,” in a speech laced with anecdotes from his days as an undergraduate and a young financial analyst working on Wall Street...
...need laws to govern analyst behavior? G.O.P. Congressman Richard Baker of Louisiana is chairing subcommittee hearings on the matter and says voluntary guidelines are not enough. But at least they're a start. John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, says, "There's a lot of important moral suasion here. No one who signed wants to be singled out as not following the rules...
...that sentiment goes against our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of litigation. Even the talking heads on CNBC are being dragged into the fray. A pediatrician in New York City recently filed an arbitration claim against celebrity analyst Henry Blodget, accusing him of keeping a "buy" rating on a downhill dotcom because his employer, Merrill Lynch, was underwriting a merger pegged to the company's share value. Merrill Lynch insists Blodget did not know about the impending merger...
...than AOL Time Warner, a $40 billion company with a broad array of interests in the Internet, movies, cable and publications?none of which hews to a government line. "This is a classic example of the importance of the WTO to company decision-making," says Matthew McGarvey, an Internet analyst at International Data Corp. in Beijing. "The deal is basically an intention by two debutantes to engage long term. To what degree it will be carried out is yet to be seen...