Word: lynching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some market watchers, though, think the current rally is not the product of more optimism about the economy, just less pessimism. And there's a big difference, they say. In report out Monday from Merrill Lynch, the analysts at that brokerage firm compared the number of trades in stocks that were falling, and the number of trades in stocks that were rising. THey found that most of the activity in the market was happening in stocks that were slumping. Their conclusion: The current market rally is a result of a lack of sellers and not a stampede of buyers. "Sellers...
...Detroit “expected to hear a message of humility, remorse and apology. Instead, we heard an arrogant and defiant man who accused the governor, among others, for his downfall.” (Kilpatrick had denied the allegations and likened the media furor around him to a lynch...
...national rate of 13.6%. Figures from the local chamber of commerce hold that even without Wachovia's contribution, Charlotte will remain the nation's second largest banking center behind New York; $3.3 trillion in assets alone come from the combined Bank of America and its recent acquisition of Merrill Lynch...
...term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, is writing Six Days That Shook the World for Penguin Press, which examines the week when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Merrill Lynch was bought and AIG received a government bailout...
...believe that a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children. This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop." - On receiving death threats against himself and his family (ABC News, March...