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Era of big exec pay over already?

September 24, 2008 — 2:05pm ET | By Jim Kim
Even as executive pay emerges as an issue in the bailout plan haggling in Washington, some are speculating that the era of big pay has ended on Wall Street. Independent investment banks are dead. The... Read more...

Some perspective on the Lehman implosion

September 22, 2008 — 9:36am ET | By Jim Kim
TheDeal.com offers an interesting take on the Lehman Brothers failure. Lehman's liabilities totaled $613 billion at the time of its bankruptcy filing. Unsecured claims of the top 30 claimants show... Read more...

CDS spreads continue to widen

September 17, 2008 — 9:30am ET | By Jim Kim
The Lehman Brothers news, the AIG fiasco and the Merrill Lynch deal offer up quite a cocktail for the markets to digest. It's fair to say that there's a lot of acid in stomachs out there, still.... Read more...

Morgan Stanley beats expectations

September 16, 2008 — 7:53pm ET | By Jim Kim
Morgan Stanley--one of the two last full-service independent investment banks--reported results a day earlier than scheduled. Thankfully, it did not add to the drumbeat of depressing news. Like... Read more...

Brave new financial regulatory structure needed?

September 15, 2008 — 9:47am ET | By Jim Kim
What to make of the pyrotechnics from a regulatory point of view? You could argue it two ways: When push came to shove, Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner somehow pulled off a workable rescue, aided in... Read more...

Lehman Brothers, another Bear Stearns after all

September 11, 2008 — 9:40pm ET | By Jim Kim
This wasn't supposed to happen. Some people thought it couldn't happen. Lehman Brothers couldn't be another Bear Stearns because the Fed had extended a novel credit window to it (and other investment... Read more...

Lehman Brothers to lay off 1,500

August 28, 2008 — 5:26pm ET | By Jim Kim
The New York Times reports that Lehman Brothers will lay off about 6 percent of its workforce, or about 1,500 employees. That brings the total axed jobs to 7,500 since June 2007. You have to think... Read more...

Would private banks have fared better?

August 20, 2008 — 9:05pm ET | By Jim Kim
The New York Times' Deal Professor raises an interesting point: Would top investment banks have fared better had they remained partnerships instead of converting to public companies? One could easily... Read more...

Richard Bove is in his prime

August 3, 2008 — 10:30pm ET | By Jim Kim
We've noted that analyst Richard Bove is a "reporters' best friend" sort of analyst. At 67, he's been covering banks for 26 years and he's definitely in his prime--he's gotten better with age. "Bove... Read more...

Lehman Brothers in need of massive surgery?

August 3, 2008 — 10:24am ET | By Jim Kim
"When gangrene strikes, amputation is sometimes the only sure remedy. Lehman Brothers may need to lop off two limbs." So says Breakingviews. All the attention was... Read more...
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