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Complicated Character Of Net Icon Henry Blodget, Dave Kansas, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2002.  "This view of Mr. Blodget dovetails with our focus on analysts, accountants and corrupt chief executives. The market has been bad for two years now, and we want villains who can absolve us of our own role in the mess." (Financial Analysts)

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Dishonesty of Eliot Spitzer's Inquisition, Michael Lewis, Bloomberg, May 25, 2002.  "The trouble with American financial life is that the people who live it are forever placing too much trust in those who seek to lead them. In good times, when the markets are soaring, people believe, or pretend to believe, the gurus who tell them which stocks to buy. In bad times, after stocks have crashed, they believe, or pretend to believe, the various regulators and prosecutors who want to put the gurus in jail"  (Financial Analysts)

Don't Shoot the Analyst, Gary Sernovitz, The New York Times, November 15, 2002. "As I watch members of Congress scold Wall Street research analysts for recommending stocks that had the audacity to decline, as I read about analysts duping investors with fraudulent reports, I rub my eyes and think, "Have these people ever talked to an analyst?"   (Financial Analysts)

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Ex-Analyst Was Too Close to Tyco, NASD Says, Landon Thomas, Jr., The New York Times, May 29, 2003.  "A former Merrill Lynch analyst who covered Tyco International was accused by securities regulators yesterday of issuing misleading research reports, disclosing nonpublic information and accepting gifts from the company's chief executive." (Financial Analysts)

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Goldman Analyst Learns That Candor Doesn't Pay:  Pharmaceutical Firms Grew Frosty After He Downgraded Their Shares, Kate Kelly, The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2003.  “In the months after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Christopher McFadden downgraded some of his stocks late last year, shares in those companies deteriorated.  So did his relationship with the companies themselves.”   (Financial Analysts)

Glowing Report on Firm X Isn't What You Might Think, Lee Gomes, The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2002.  "Last year, Onetta Inc., a Silicon Valley fiber-optics start-up, wanted to call attention to its innovative communications products. So, it says, it told its story to Aberdeen Group, a market-research firm in Boston.  Aberdeen seemed to be impressed, because it soon published a very positive research report. The report said, for instance, that Onetta had a "commitment to high performance" and an "intelligent product roadmap," and that it "worked to build highly satisfied customer relationships."  But there was one little detail the report omitted: that Onetta had paid Aberdeen $8,000 to have it written.  Welcome to the world of "praise for pay" research, another of the high-tech world's dirty little secrets."  (Financial Analysts)

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Merrill Replaced Its Analyst For Tyco Following Meeting, Charles Gasparino, The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2002.  "Merrill Lynch & Co. replaced a stock analyst after Tyco International Ltd.'s former chief executive complained in a face-to-face meeting with Merrill CEO David Komansky about the analyst's research coverage of Tyco, according to people close to the matter.  Merrill replaced the analyst, Jeanne Terrile, in 1999 shortly after it hired Phua Young, one of Tyco's biggest supporters on Wall Street, who promptly upgraded shares of the company to a "buy," from "accumulate." The pressure by the Tyco chief, L. Dennis Kozlowski, on Merrill was referenced in an indictment against the ex-Tyco chief last week by the Manhattan district attorney's office."  (Financial Analysts) Classic

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NASD Fines Piper Jaffray Amid Crackdown on Analysts, A Wall Street Journal News Roundup, June 25, 2002.  "Securities regulators fined Piper Jaffray and one of its bankers $300,000 for threatening to drop research coverage of Antigenics Inc. in retaliation when the biotech company chose another underwriter to lead a planned stock offering."  (Financial Analysts)

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Pressuring Analysts: Hard Habit to Break, Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, August 11, 2002.  "But just a few weeks before, according to one of Salomon's junior analysts, Kenneth A. Boss, two Salomon investment bankers had exerted improper influence on him. The pressure came just weeks after Salomon had adopted rules to keep research independent.  As Mr. Boss tells the tale, in late June, after spending weeks on a report analyzing three office furniture companies, he was lukewarm about the stocks' prospects and assigned them a neutral and high-risk rating. He argued that until the overall business climate improved, demand for these companies' products would be lackluster. When two Salomon investment bankers and Mr. Boss's immediate supervisor saw the draft report, they demanded that he revise it to be more upbeat. Mr. Boss refused. A few days later, on June 27, he was fired. Mr. Boss, 33, was offered $24,230 in severance from Salomon, which he refused."  (Financial Analysts) Classic

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Requiem for an Honorable Profession, Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, May 5, 2002.  "It is hard to pinpoint when it happened, because culture changes incrementally. But Stefan D. Abrams, the chief investment officer for asset allocation at Trust Company of the West, dates the shift in Wall Street's research culture to about 1996.  The mergers business was in full bloom, bringing in huge fees for securities firms and the promise of more to come. The dot-com and telecommunications boom was starting to build, and with it came the prospect of many initial public offerings — more gold for Wall Street investment banks. The stock market was embarked on the biggest run-up of all time, and individual investors — with easy online trading — were joining professional traders in droves, suggesting even more business, albeit at low margins, for the nation's brokerages."  (Financial Analysts) Classic

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Telecom's Pied Piper: Whose Side Was He On?, Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times, November 18, 2001.  "Taken separately, the rise and fall of five once- highflying telecommunications concerns, all in bankruptcy, is hardly remarkable. But together, along with other recent telecom failures and those still likely to occur, they represent one of the most spectacular investment debacles ever. Bigger than the South Sea bubble. " (Financial Analysts)

Tiny Transaction Is Big Focus Of Prosecutors in Enron Case, John R. Emshwiller and Ann Davis, The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2003. “A huge, light-gray building, trimmed jauntily in blue, rises from the rolling, grassy fields on the far side of the runways at Indianapolis International Airport. From the approach road, the building seems active. But the parking lots are empty and, inside, the 12 elaborately equipped hangar bays are silent and dark. It is as if the owner of a lavishly furnished mansion had suddenly walked away, leaving everything in place.  That is what happened. United Airlines got $320 million in taxpayer money to build what is by all accounts the most technologically advanced aircraft maintenance center in America. But six months ago, the company walked away, leaving the city and state governments out all that money, and no new tenant in sight.  The shuttered maintenance center is a stark, and unusually vivid, reminder of the risk inherent in gambling public money on corporate ventures. Yet the city and state are stepping up subsidies to other companies that offer, as United once did, to bring high-paying jobs and sophisticated operations to Indiana. Many municipal and state governments are doing the same, escalating a bidding war for a shrunken pool of jobs in America despite the worst squeeze in years on their budgets.” (Financial Analysts)

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Wall Street Analysts Still Give Banking Clients High Ratings, Randall Smith, The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2003.  “Some investors, heartened by regulatory scrutiny of stock-research conflicts, expect big changes in the way securities firms rate stocks of their corporate clients. They shouldn't. ”  (Financial Analysts)

What Every Investor Should Know About Stock Analysis, Sam Jaffe, BusinessWeek, September 17, 1998.  "Every three months, Wall Street throws an invitation-only dance called earnings season. On one side of the ballroom are the chief financial officers of companies that are about to report their earnings. On the other side are the analysts, whose job it is to guess those earnings. The dance comes to an end with the company usually announcing numbers that are amazingly close to what most of the analysts guessed." (Financial Analysts)  Classic

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