Word: drops
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...than what the firms would have paid out had the government not decided to bail out the financial sector. But bonus pay is down just over $19 billion from a year ago. What's more, Brad Hintz, an analyst at money manager Sanford Bernstein, predicts Wall Street employment will drop from its mid-July peak by around 43,000 employees by the end of next year...
...this new burst of cynicism is coming from the brutally candid earnings that guidance companies have been providing lately. "What management is saying on these [conference] calls is basically 'Life sucks,'" says Van Dijk. (He titled his investment report for the close of October "Halloween Comes Early: The Drop in Earnings Expectations Is Scarier Than Any Witch or Werewolf That Shows Up at Your Door...
What do you make of the global financial crisis more broadly? Do you think there's still another shoe to drop...
...cycle got its most vigorous workout during the whirlwind introduction of Sarah Palin. John McCain's Veep passed from surprise (who is this woman?) to novelty (beauty queen who shoots moose) to scandal (her daughter's pregnant) to obituary (will McCain drop her?) to resurrection (she's a pit bull with lipstick) to skepticism (but can she appeal beyond the base?) at the speed of a snowmobile...
...purple may be one of the most complicated colors. It traces its roots back to kings and cardinals, in the days when thousands of mollusks had to be crushed to make a single drop of purple dye, a process only those with servants could afford. Douglas Lloyd of Lloyd & Co., the New York City design firm that recently created a violet-hued ad campaign for Estée Lauder's fragrance Sensuous, says he chose the color for its "royal connotations, a richness that conjures the idea of religion and incense." But, he says...