Brinkman said at least one Wall Street firm is interested in a commercial version.
But exactly that prospect has generated excitement from one Wall Street analyst and deep inside Internet message boards.
The Volcker rule could particularly hamper smaller European nations seeking to borrow money by issuing sovereign debt, said one Wall Street executive.
But when the recession hit, the company and its owners ran into problems, detailed last year in a page one Wall Street Journal article.
"It's a chunk of money that's there, and you don't have to worry about it like you do suppliers, buyers and so forth, " says one Wall Street tax expert.
In recent weeks, it was almost as if one of our stocks or another would fall prey to a bad announcement or short-sellers or abandonment by one Wall Street analyst or another.
Mr. Caswell's case, which was detailed in a page-one Wall Street Journal article in 2011, challenged the U.S. government's asset-forfeiture system, which collects billions of dollars each year of cash, real estate, cars and other assets.
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One Wall Street titan, the owner of 15 complicated Patek Philippe wristwatches, recounted to me the time his secretary called while he was traveling abroad to inform him that an armored truck had arrived at the office bearing his latest piece.
"It's hard to extricate yourself from the terminal, " said one senior Wall Street official.
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No one on Wall Street said take a little something off of the table.
Markets abhor uncertainty, and no one on Wall Street believes any of the ten-year fiscal projections.
Almost no one on Wall Street writes about this, but it works and has done so for decades.
And no one on Wall Street really believed Congress would allow the debt ceiling to cause a U.S. default.
It may turn out to be one of Wall Street's biggest frauds ever.
"This was a shocking betrayal of trust by one of Wall Street's most trusted names, " Spitzer proclaimed at the time.
Yardeni, one of Wall Street's most prominent economists, is currently forecasting a 40% likelihood of a recession due to the Y2K glitch.
Worse enough for one of Wall Street biggest bulls to grow cautious.
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As a result, the Merrill agreement states that it applies only until one of Wall Street's self-regulating bodies initiates the same rule.
Today will be a relatively quiet one on Wall Street, with drugstore Rite Aid and Smithfield Foods among the few companies releasing earnings.
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Louis Navellier is one of Wall Street's renowned growth investors.
One thing Wall Street does well is know your customer.
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But despite its questionable predictive value, the game of setting price targets is a lucrative one for Wall Street because it makes people want to trade boosting commission revenue.
The prize role on Facebook could put the winner ahead of competitors in an area that has proven to be one of Wall Street's bright spots amid relentless pressure on profits.
One of Wall Street's few remaining independent investment banks, Lehman Brothers, has reported that profits for the fiscal year 2000 jumped by a record 57%, led by record fees for merger advice.
Replacing the chief executive has been one way Wall Street firms have been signaling to investors that they are trying to fix the situation, but it's unlikely to help in the short run.
It appears that gravity, the same pesky force of nature that caused the edible variety of an apple to fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head, is causing one of Wall Street's tech darlings to fall as well.
On Friday, John Mack , chief executive of Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), and usually one of Wall Street's top paid, became the latest to perform the penitent ritual of forgoing an annual bonus.
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Said source also claims it has a SIM card slot, which would be fine except for BGR's assertion that 3, 2 is the oft-rumored CDMA iPhone -- you know, the one that Wall Street Journal is all but certain is coming next year.
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One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.
From the standpoint of value, it is fair to say that Facebook is to social media as Google (GOOG) is to search since at one point Wall Street was forced to answer this same question of both Google and (before it) Yahoo (YHOO).
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