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...Merrill Lynch, talking like it has forever banished conflict of interest from within its walls, will now bar its army of 850 stock analysts from owning the stocks they analyze. No more can a member of the Lynch mob be accused of touting a company to line his own pockets...
...This move underscores Merrill Lynch's commitment to setting the standard for objectivity, independence and quality of research," said Andrew Melnick, director of Merrill Lynch Global Securities Research. "As a firm, we've always focused on the investor client and if the investor client had concerns in this area it was important to rebuild the trust between research, the firm and our investor clients...
...accused of using websites, e-mail and off-line methods to try to steal the celebrities' identities and make off with millions in assets. One scheme that was caught in time: he allegedly sent an e-mail purporting to come from Siebel Systems founder Thomas Siebel to Merrill, Lynch, directing that $10 million be transferred to an offshore account. (Abdallah, who has yet to be indicted on federal charges, denied all wrongdoing at the time of his arrest...
When the Internet bubble was in full swing, legends Peter Lynch (who can't work a PC) and Warren Buffett (who won't touch a PC stock) took a fair amount of grief for their technophobic ways. To their credit, they raised awareness of the risks building throughout the stock market--and in tech land in particular. Yet I thought they were wrong to warn individual investors consistently off tech stocks entirely, and I said so in a November 1999 column...
...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...