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...continue to buy and pass along independent research-either because they know it helps their clients, or because they see it as a marketing tool. By and large, though, the banks never went to great lengths to advertise the availability and value of the research to customers-like, say, Charles Schwab does. That's partly because most customers at firms such as Merrill Lynch deal with intermediaries like brokers. Still, "while the retail investor may not have been accessing that research directly, investment professionals were consuming it and then presenting it to their clients," says Michael Mayhew, chairman and director...
...global settlement. The independent research industry is influenced by plenty of other forces, too, especially a constant onslaught of new competition. "There are low barriers to entry, and with a lot of people on Wall Street out of work, it's pretty easy for an analyst to say, let me try my hand at that," says Mark Fichtel, a former president of the New York Mercantile Exchange and one of the Securities and Exchange Commission consultants who picked which independent research shops to use in the settlement...
Zimbabweans cheered when the government of national unity was formed in February by President Robert Mugabe and his erstwhile foe Morgan Tsvangirai, who is now the country's Prime Minister. But ordinary folks say they are not happy with what has happened since. Half the population of about 13 million is facing hunger; a raging cholera epidemic has claimed more than 4,000 lives since last year; and the economy has continued to be inert, as it has been for almost a decade now. The world economic crunch has not helped the situation. "We are yet to see results...
...majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it." - On his popularity. (TIME...
...increase in suspected insurgent attacks was already apparent before the waves of former prisoners began emerging from Camp Bucca. Several Awakening leaders and officers in the Iraqi security forces interviewed by TIME say they do not believe that the former Bucca inmates are contributing to the rise in violence these days...