Recently, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter listed the Asian companies it viewed as having a competitive edge.
These investors can be broadly divided into two kinds, says Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Maybe it's AOL's Steve Case or Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mary Meeker (the "Queen of the Internet").
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs both plan to double their Australian staff over the next year.
"The once-lionized keiretsu system has become a liability, " says analyst Chris Redl at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Tokyo.
It counts investment banks Bear Stearns, Citibank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, The Bank of New York among its tenants.
Conway couldn't take off from his job at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, where he was a computer systems programmer.
"It has not been an easy transition, " says a report by Andy Xie, regional economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Joseph Quinlan, an economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, reckons most analysts overstate the impact Asia will have on American firms.
Morgan, have lately been joined by Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which are both setting up their own operations.
Wall Street has already priced a tax cut into the markets, says Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Lazard's investment-banking business is too small to be an effective competitor against such giants as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
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Moreover, points out Teun Draaisma of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, there is less inflationary pressure in Europe and the euro looks steady.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's has lost 5% and PaineWebber's a startling 13%.
Deutsche and Dresdner aimed to create a bank that could rival US investment bank giants such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
"You need someone at the top who can think of systemic change, " says Andy Xie, China economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong.
According to Christopher Redl of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an American investment bank, two-thirds of a typical Japanese car is still made in high-cost Japan.
Jiway was started in early 2000 by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an investment bank, and OM Group which, among other things, owns the Stockholm exchange.
Since then Hines has become one of the largest developers in Manhattan, overseeing construction of office towers for Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
The most talked-about banks, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Deutsche, deny they have had big problems, but they are unlikely to be the only ones to have suffered.
Jack Wadsworth, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Asian operations, reckons it will take at least five years for Shanghai to develop financial markets to rival Hong Kong's.
"Anytime you find a lot of oil in a small place, the economics are fantastic, " says Douglas Terreson, the managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Houston, Texas.
Indeed, thinks Kevin Gardiner of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, consumers' spending power in 1999 should be more than double what it was in 1990 and slightly up on this year.
Stephen Roach, chief economist of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, thinks this in turn will boost the interest-sensitive areas of the economy, such as capital investment, consumer durables and home building.
But, argues Kevin Gardiner, an economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an investment bank, successive governments have made a hash of their attempts to use taxes to fine-tune the economy.
Peter Churchouse, Hong Kong-based managing director of investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia, reckons that after the Crisis, fund managers will threaten recalcitrant companies with "the ultimate weapon": withdrawing investment.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter now reckons that the world economy will grow by some 4% this year and it thinks that, if anything, its forecast is likely to be too conservative.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter advised Ciena on the transaction.
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