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Wall Street CEOs faring very well

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Wall Street's big-name CEOs are faring well as earnings and stock prices soar. Total compensation for Goldman Sachs' Henry Paulson and Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld rose 31 percent. They were rewarded in part for rising stock prices. At Citigroup, Charles Prince rose 20 percent, even though the stock and revenues were flat. One exception to the more-pay trend: Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne got a meager 1.6 percent raise even though the stock rose 13 percent in 2005.

> Here's an Investment Dealers' Digest article. (exclusively for FierceFinance)