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...successful," says TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec. But failure isn?t against the law, and after the report?s release, trading firms were scrambling to remind regulators -? and the public -? that a few unscrupulous apples aside, what they sell isn?t any different than a job at Merrill Lynch: it?s an opportunity to play the markets with the big boys. The only difference is whose money gets put on the table. At Merrill, winners get rich and losers just get fired. In day-trading, winners get rich but losers go broke. Regulators don?t have a problem with...
...Fiorina faces a slew of similar challenges as a company renowned for its engineering proficiency takes on fleet competitors like Dell and Sun Microsystems, which have decidedly jazzier images. "The old joke about HP is they'd market sushi as cold, dead fish," says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milonovich. "Right now they just don't have much of an Internet aura." Company officials admit they've been a little bit late to the I-party, losing critical market share to Sun in the server business and playing catch-up with its highly touted e-services offerings. "Clearly, we need...
...almost three times what the U.S. will likely manage in this fairly sizzling year. And global investors, feeling some drag in American markets, are looking to Japan for the next big ride. "The jump in the Nikkei is very real," says Chuck Clough, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch. "I believe it could reach 36,000 in two years." That greedy mantra--a 100% return in two years!--has sent billions of dollars and euros thundering into Tokyo. And it is freaking out the Japanese...
Even in the diverse global economy of today, the car business is cyclical. At the moment we're in a boom. The trick is to sell before the bust. "The time to buy auto stocks is when times are bad but not getting worse," notes Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa. "The time to sell is when times are good but not getting better." Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian showed us the way. He was buying Chrysler at $10 in 1991, when the company was on its back. His $1.5 billion investment is worth more than $5 billion...
...regulatory turf away from the Treasury Department. Now the negotiators take over ?- and Wall Street is salivating at the prospect of a deal. When Citigroup?s model of one-stop financial shopping becomes officially available to the rest of the corporate herd, get ready for a merger stampede; Merrill Lynch, Lehman and DLJ are all potential acquisitions (or acquisitors). And in the meantime, financial stocks may be a pretty good...