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...plus side, investor panic (which translates into hyperactive trading) and scrambling by executives to make deals have boosted Wall Street revenue. In the first half of the year, which is the latest available data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the total fees that the investment banks and brokerage firms collected were nearly $166 billion. That's more than triple the $55.5 billion the firms had in revenue back in the first half of 2002. But the big difference is that in 2002, Wall Street was making money - nearly $8 billion in the first half of that year...
...none of those efforts have yet helped boost global markets, where investor sentiment seems set. During an online chat Monday on the site of Spanish daily El Pais, the European Union's Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he thought the uncertainty currently rattling markets could linger on for another year...
News that Japan's three biggest financial institutions - which have all recently invested in foreign financial institutions - were considering selling new shares to shore up their [working capital] triggered the decline. The move would dilute banks' earnings per-share, compounding investor worry that the appreciation of the yen will further reduce share value and corporate profits. Mitsubishi UFJ, like Japan's other mega-banks, avoided damage caused by the subprime crisis, but its stock portfolio is now taking a hit as the Nikkei and Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) continue to fall and wipe value from its balance sheet...
...disappointed.” While Allon said Manhattan Media regrets the suspension, he called the magazine “a good idea at a bad time.” He added that there is still a possibility that the magazine could be revived with the backing of an investor. “We’d be open to discussing it,” Allon said, referring to a future partnership with another company or investor. The final issue of 02138 will be published digitally in the first week of November, when it will be available for free at 02138mag.com...
...while the players who were given all of the outcomes as a set of information were much more likely to take all of them into equal consideration when making a prediction. This conclusion, along with Barron’s previous work, sheds considerable light on understanding the actions of investors in global financial markets, specifically in the realm of stocks. Barron compared the hypothetical reactions of one investor who had experienced a significant downturn in the distant past with a new investor who hears about the downturn as part of a set of information. “Both people would...