Word: banker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the incident was not related to terrorism. Still, many police officers busy shepherding people away from danger could offer no ready explanation for the blast, and the atmosphere at the scene was tense. "Everybody was a bit confused," Heiko H. Thieme, an investment banker in midtown, told the Associated Press. "Everybody obviously thought of 9/11...
...Hong Kong to list their shares on the mainland. Officials in China knew well that their equity markets had a well-earned reputation for being poorly regulated - more casino than orderly market. That's why they introduced a new securities law a year ago, and it's also why, bankers in China say, they wanted to give retail investors a shot at investing in well known companies. "For the last year," says a western banker in Hong Kong, "the word has definitely gone out that solid, state-run companies already trading in Hong Kong should consider IPOs on the mainland...
...women clients typically viewed their home as a temporary way station on the road to marriage. "It was like these single women with suitcases at the door, they wanted something but not anything permanent," says Yaary. Now she's decorating apartments for women like the 35-year-old investment banker who ordered built-in furniture and reconstructed the bathroom of her apartment. "She's doing what she wants. None of this attitude of 'I'll need to take it with me when I meet...
...totally adored him," says Lila Hicks, 32, a media producer, of the investment banker with whom she ended a seven-year romance not long ago, deciding life with him would be too limiting. "But I wasn't happy. I didn't think I could make him happy and retain my spirit, what makes me shine." Shawna Perry, an emergency-medicine doctor in Jacksonville, Fla., recently ended a 10-year relationship with a man whom she loves but feels is behind her in personal and professional growth. "His ups and downs were affecting our relationship and my security," she says...
...June 30, 2006. Sources: American Banker; SNL Financial...