Word: analyst
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...century. In 1991, during the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, a rumor in the press section placed Smith at the Skakel home on the night of the murder in Connecticut that most people had forgotten. The lead proved false but attracted the attention of author Dominick Dunne, an omnipresent analyst of the O.J. Simpson trial and a specialist in high-society true crime; his own daughter was murdered at a young age. Dunne wrote a thinly veiled novelization of the Moxley case, A Season in Purgatory, which became a best seller and a TV movie. Adding to the furor...
Local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71 said there are some "interesting scenarios," one of which includes first-time Councillor Braude being elected mayor...
...neither an Internet highflyer nor an old-economy cash-flow locomotive. AOL lost about 20% of its value before recovering to $63. Time Warner leaped 58% on the news, then settled at $82, up 26% for the week. In the nobody-knows-anything world of Wall Street, one analyst was predicting a 50% increase in AOL's stock price between now and next fall when the deal is expected to close, another was predicting a continuing slump, a third meaninglessly narrowed the medium-term price target to "between $55 and $90," and the last little analyst cried...
...companies haven't spent this kind of money since the baby boomers moved en masse into the market," says Wesley Brown, an auto analyst with Nextrend in Thousand Oaks, Calif. "They know it's much easier to bring new buyers to a brand while they're 16 than it is to start conquering them...
...have the bond vigilantes lost their effectiveness? John Manley, a market analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, traces it to the stock market's wealth effect. "People have money," he says. "Why wouldn't they spend it?" If you're sitting on stock worth twice your dreams, it's unlikely that higher rates will keep you out of the mall. And consider: more folks can sell stock and pay cash for a boat, a car, even a house. If they don't have to borrow, interest rates are immaterial...