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- Pfizer Phasing Out Cholesterol
- Wall Street Weather submits: A September 25, 2008 memo by Martin Mackay, Pfizer’s PFE president for Global Research and Development, confirms that Pfizer will not develop any more drugs that target cholesterol as the culprit in causing heart disease. In fact, Pfizer will exit drug development for cardiovascular disease...
- External links 2008-10-23
- Jamie Dimon Should Know: Protecting the Consumer Is Key
- Wall Street Weather submits: As JPMorgan Chase JPM Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal (“A Unified Bank Regulator Is a Good Start”), the gulf that grew between Wall Street and Main Street has hurt everyone. by Wall Street Weather
- External links 2009-07-02
- More on 'Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation' (Response to Ken Johnson)
- Wall Street Weather submits: This is my response to a SA comment posted by Ken Johnson, Senior Vice President, Communications of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, in response to my SA article, “Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation.” While I am proactive about maintaining good...
- External links 2009-05-19
- Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation
- Wall Street Weather submits: Eli Lilly LLY Chairman and CEO John Lechleiter’s op-ed piece on “Health-Care Reform and the ‘Innovation Test’” in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is yet another anti-consumer big pharma industry rant. Mr. Lechleiter does not want Americans to have the ability to choose between a public or...
- External links 2009-05-15
- The Bernanke Fed's Bogus Transparency
- Wall Street Weather submits: “The Federal Reserve remains committed to transparency and openness and, in particular, to keeping the Congress and the public informed about its lending programs and balance sheet.” –Ben Bernanke’s testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, May 5, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks a lot...
- External links 2009-05-07
- Bernanke's 'Transparency' Efforts: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
- Wall Street Weather submits: Who forced Bank of America BAC to complete the merger with Merrill Lynch when Merrill’s fourth quarter earnings looked like a disaster? All fingers point to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. New York Attorney General Cuomo deposed chief executive Ken Lewis and former Treasury Secretary...
- External links 2009-04-23
- How the Government Forced BofA to Marry Merrill Lynch
- Wall Street Weather submits: Bank of America BAC chief executive Ken Lewis had coveted Merrill Lynch for quite some time. So when Merrill CEO John Thain contacted Lewis to ask if his bank was interested in buying Merrill, Lewis jumped at the chance. John Thain sensed that...
- External links 2009-01-18
- Fed Creates Bank Margin Squeeze
- Wall Street Weather submits: This could turn into the mother of all interest rate margin squeezes for the banks now that the Federal Reserve has announced that for the first time in its history, it has a established a “target range” for the fed funds rate of “0 to 0.25%.”...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Wal-Mart Kept Estimated $60 Million in Sales Taxes
- Wall Street Weather submits: A new study by Good Jobs First, a Washington DC nonprofit research group, estimates* Wal-Mart WMT kept about $60 million in retail sales tax last year from state vendor compensation programs that allow Wal-Mart and other retailers to keep a portion of the sales tax revenue...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Treasury Uses TARP for PNC to Acquire National City
- Wall Street Weather submits: Pittsburgh based regional bank PNC PNC announced Friday morning it is acquiring Cleveland based regional National City Bank NCC for $5.5 billion. For each share of NatCity common stock, NatCity shareholders will receive 0.0392 per share (about $2.23 a share) of PNC common stock. ...
- External links 2008-10-26
- Goldman Sachs Political Capital Ratio Is Inadequate
- Wall Street Weather submits: The stock market suddenly turned bullish on Monday after Meredith Whitney upped Goldman Sachs GS from “Neutral” to “Buy” with a twelve month price target of $186. Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, the normally bearish financial analyst said the recommendation was “a bearish call but...
- External links 2009-07-15
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- Obama Warns Wall Street is Returning to Past Errors
- President Obama warned Monday that some in the financial industry have failed to learn from last year's failure of Lehman Brothers and the financial meltdown that followed. He pledged to make it harder for financial firms to be too big to fail. Obama travelled to Wall Street...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Remarks by telephone by the President at Wall Street Project Gala Reception.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-20 January 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Remarks by telephone by the President at Wall Street Project Gala Reception C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:190199 New York Stock Exchange New York, New York THE PRESIDENT:...
- Research articles 1999-01-20
- Food securities: Where Wall Street meets Main Street
- Capital market imperatives can have as much impact on agricultural producers as the weather or commodity prices. Agriculturalists need to understand that when Wall Street coughs, Main Street ought to try the chicken soup. Like it or not, developments in global equity capital markets affect the well being of...
- Research articles 2001-12-22
- Wall Street brokerages weather second quarter
- NEW YORK -- Wall Street's brokerages weathered the stock market's second-quarter volatility exceptionally well, as illustrated by strong profits from Merrill Lynch, TD Ameritrade and Charles Schwab. But with greater uncertainty ahead, investors are concerned about the companies' ability to sustain their growth. On Tuesday, Merrill Lynch &...
- Research articles 2006-07-19
- Wall Street Experts Forecast Bright Future at Florida Convention.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5 -- BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Here at the annual meeting of the Securities Industry Association yesterday, it may have been cloudy outside, but inside the Wall Street heavies were forecasting a bright future. Even as...
- Research articles 1999-11-04
- Weather Hurt July Retail, If Anyone Noticed
- So how much did weather influence July retail sales? Significantly, said Scott Bernhardt, COO of weather tracking firm Planalytics. Not that every section of the country suffered the same effects. However, the overall picture was of a cold, rainy month that put a real damper on retail...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Former SEC Chairman Levitt: The Dangers of the Paulson Doctrine
- Wall Street Weather submits: Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt makes the case for why the SEC "is the guardian of America's capital markets" in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, "You Can't Control Animal Spirits". Levitt first makes the point that animal spirits and moral hazard have "caused even...
- External links 2008-08-06
- Fed Likely to Save Lehman
- Wall Street Weather submits: The Wall Street Journal is reporting (“Fed Acted on Lehman Rumor”), that Federal Reserve officials contacted Credit Suisse CS in response to a rumor circulating in July that the Swiss bank planned to a pull a line of credit with Lehman Brothers LEH. Credit Suisse told...
- External links 2008-08-21
- What's Paulson Cooking Up For Fannie & Freddie?
- Wall Street Weather submits: It was an amazing feat that Treasury Secretary Paulson was able to squeeze in his July 13 “GSE Initiatives” proposal for Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE into the Housing bill that President Bush signed July 30. Despite Paulson’s continued assertion that Treasury has no...
- External links 2008-08-07
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