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The Republican National Convention, which opens Monday at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, is being bankrolled and feted to an extraordinary degree by the financial services behemoths that are concentrated at the island's southern tip.
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To woo business from Fidelity Investments traders, a New York brokerage firm showered them with pricey gifts such as private vacations and golf outings, tickets to a Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera concert, parties at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston sponsored by Playboy and Maxim magazines, and a dozen bottles of Chateau Petrus wine worth $625 apiece.
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Those seeking a bit of consistency among Wall Street analysts need look no further than video games. The consensus for the rest of the year: The sector will rock.
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NEW YORK OF ALL the business tycoons assembling for their favorite party&#39;s convention this week, none will get a warmer, perk-filled welcome than the personal
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Wall Street hopes its traditional  year-end "Santa rally" will pick up steam this week.
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Investor conferences put on by public companies tend to be upbeat affairs. That was indeed the case at    CapitalSource Inc. 's annual presentation to research analysts. About 125 people -- mostly the youngish, mathy types who follow financial service companies for Wall Street -- were crammed into the Fairmont hotel in Foggy Bottom to listen to a procession of crisp, data-laden speeches about CapitalSource.
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Private equity consultant Jeff Temple  and his friend at a major Wall Street investment bank had been  used to working well into the evening -- which was why they  were surprised to find they weren&#39;t too busy to meet for drinks  at 5:30 p.m. recently.
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Elephants on parade, bulls on the beach, bears on the bench. It&#39;s going to be quite a week on Wall Street. Although how many Wall Streeters will be around is up in the air.
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Wall Street is hoping its traditional year-end "Santa rally" will pick up steam in the week ahead.
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As it assembles at the Boston Hilton today to consider selling Dow Jones &amp; Co. and its main prize, The Wall Street Journal, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. , the controlling Bancroft clan faces some stark choices.
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Hundreds of companies, trade associations and other lobbying groups are not about to miss the chance to entertain top members of the party in power.
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Macbooks, real books, and frothy brews will have starring roles in next week's Wall Street epic.
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The GOP convention came to New York last week and Wall Street did . . . well, not much. Many traders and money managers fled the city to avoid convention-related headaches.
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Knowing a little bit more than the next guy is the name of the game on Wall Street.
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It's party time for trade associations, companies and interest groups at the GOP convention in New York, and each is trying to outdo the next in gimmicks to lure in movers and shakers.
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A slide on Wall Street gave  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney a chance to play  his strongest card on Tuesday and burnish his CEO image in a  state that could make or break his bid for the White House.
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It's a challenging sector, but this restaurant stock is serving up an appetizing investing opportunity.