Saturday, January 21, 2012

New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained

New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained
New York Times
By PETER EAVIS and SUSANNE CRAIG With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results for last year, Wall Street is having to confront doubts about itself. Is this a temporary slump? Or will the moneymakers never get to go back to ...

New York Times

New normal on Wall Street: smaller and restrained
NDTV
Some of the forces that weighed on earnings last year — like Europe's government debt crisis and a sluggish United States economy — could go away. Yet Wall Street still faces permanent pressures on profitability, particularly stricter regulations ...

Economist says 'new normal' is here
Bradenton Herald
By JOSH SALMAN - jsalman@bradenton.com BRADENTON -- Economist Hank Fishkind told nearly 400 area business leaders Thursday that while they may not like it, the local economy is treading close to its new normal. Fishkind predicts the Manatee-Sarasota ...

Bradenton Herald

Dubai: The New Normal Comes with Fries
BusinessWeek
By Zahra Hankir A year ago, Nabil Rantisi spent his days trading stocks at a Dubai brokerage. Today he fills orders of a different kind. The gourmet deli he opened in September serves roast beef in a Yorkshire pudding wrap and other lunchtime fare to ...

BusinessWeek

2011 — A Year of Climate Extremes. Can 2012 be Far Behind?
Earth Island Journal
Weird climate, after all, is the new normal these days. Twenty-eleven has been quite a year of climate extremes, hasn't it? Prolonged drought in Texas, blinding snowstorms in the Northeast, raging wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico, floods stretching ...

Bond Market Analysis: Investors Loading Up on Corporates, Banks in 2012
International Business Times
"Calm has broken out," Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Philadelphia-based broker-dealer Janney Montgomery Scott said, describing what may be a new normalin the corporate bond market. That calm has been a respite for investors, ...
 
International Business Times

Salary cap parity means assembling a star-laden dynasty is now impossible
CNN
At some point, a prolonged slump becomes the new normal. So with Crosby on the shelf and Ovechkin showing only the occasional glimpse of what made him hockey's favorite eye candy, which players can do more than carry a team or sometimes dominate a game ...

Strategic change essential for Delaware
The News Journal
Perhaps Delawareans are getting used to the "new normal"of tough economic times, but Gov. Jack Markell's "State of the State" address Thursday struck a calming note. His emphasis was on strategy, not keeping the sky from falling. ...

January is fruit tree season
OCRegister
The new normal for fruit trees is to aim for 5-feet high and wide. If yours are already taller than this, best to leave the height alone for now as the tips of the branches are typically where the fruiting buds are. Copper, lime and oil sprays are ...

DealBook's Week in Review
New York Times (blog)
THE NEW NORMAL “With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results for last year, Wall Street is having to confront doubts about itself.” Peter Eavis and Ms. Craig asked, “Is this a temporary slump? Or will the moneymakers never ...

Katrina General Russel L. Honoré to Speak at Governor's Tourism Conference
Arkansas Business Online
Honoré, the author of "Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters," will speak on "The New Normal: Leadership and Preparedness in the 21st Century." He famously coordinated military relief efforts for in 2005 in ...

Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education releases Top Ten Issues to ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Georgia's New Performance Standards; Assessing Teachers: From Highly Qualified to Highly Effective; Implementation of Common Core; Challenges to Rural Schools; The New Normal: Georgia's Education Financing; Georgia's Pre-K Program: Quality and Quantity ...

Ohio Beef Cattle School to begin
Defiance Crescent News (subscription)
BRYAN -- "The New Normal," is the theme for the 2012 Ohio Beef Cattle School series beginning on Jan. 26, and continuing on Feb. 9 and 16, and March 1. Each session will be a broadcast "live" beginning at 7 pm at the Williams County Extension ...

Results Are In For 2011: 7.8% Return On Conservative IRA portfolio
Seeking Alpha
While that doesn't knock anybody's socks off, it seems like a pretty reasonable result in a “new normal” environment where the broad market S&P 500 (SPY) and Wiltshire 5000 indices were both essentially flat for the year, in terms of capital ...

Funds must disclose returns targets: SuperRatings
Super Review
SuperRatings also found that "very few" superannuation funds hit their CPI+ objective during seven or 10 year periods, and called for funds to reassess their objectives in the "new normal" of the post-GFC environment. The call came in a SuperRatings ...

Super Review

Variety spice of life for modern shoppers
Courier Mail
"Shopping around is definitely the new normal," Eureka managing director Bob Kelly said. According to a spokeswoman from Woolworths, most stores now stock between 25000 to 30000 individual products, double the number carried 20 years ago. ...

Average Car in the US Now Over 10 Years Old, a Record
Forbes
Before the recession, leasing helped the US auto industry persuade itself that annual sales of at least 16 million cars and trucks were the “new normal.” Then reality hit the fan. New-car sales fell sharply in 2008 and 2009. ...

Forbes

Marketers Scramble for Footing as Pet Owners Shop Around
Marketwire (press release)
Shorter term, since 2008, the Great Recession and its New Normal aftermath of economic sluggishness have pressured pet product retailers of all kinds. Budget-conscious consumers demand more value in the products they buy, chart out grocery shopping ...

Finding Your Voice After Cancer
WBUR
For more on this topic, and to get a glimpse of how other people with cancer find a “new normal” within their own lives, come to CommonHealth's Jan. 30 screening of “Outside In,” a provocative 1-hour documentary film about one woman's remarkable ...

Inflation: The Only Tool Left
Gold Seek
The USEconomic recession is the New Normal, Mr El-Erian. Ann Barnhardt confirmed the COMEX is going into obscurity and irrelevance. Players are exiting. Risk of theft is perceived. Trust has gone. Metal inventory will vanish next from honest players in ...

Gold Seek

Boy fights battle with leukemia
Hometown News
As a result of Enzo's leukemia, Elaine said the family has adopted "a new normal," which includes regular trips to Orlando's Arnold Palmer Hospital for spinal taps, blood transfusions, a platelet transfusion and six different types of chemotherapy. ...

Hometown News

Civil and Human Rights Review of First Session of 112th Congress: “One of the ...
Civilrights.org
... to what's in store for Second Session and projects that “the challenge for us going forward is to operate effectively in this new hyperpartisan environment without becoming dispirited or accepting it as the 'new normal,' as so many people have. ...

ACG predictions: Power, environment, economy and aging
Jacksonville Daily Record
Teeple said that over the decade, the housing inventory will be absorbed and construction will be back “in full swing,” but at a “new normal.” The number of jobs will increase and there will be land-use changes from residential holdings to ...

BelchertownCAN! plans town-wide food drive to benefit local pantries
MassLive.com
Now, however, relying on food pantries is the 'new normal' for a lot of people.” “We're seeing two to 10 new families every week,” said Tracey Levy, program director of the Amherst Survival Center, in the release. Levy added that although unemployment ...

SOPA Blackouts: When Annoying Your Customers is Best Practice
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
The logical question is whether this sort of corporate "hacktivism" will emerge as a new normal for cause marketing worldwide. If more customers are intrigued than exasperated by such innovative intrusiveness, who knows what Google Bombs or IEDs ...

Stop the stigma
San Ramon Express
Eventually Felder tried to get on with her "new normal." "I created Tamika & Friends so no cervical cancer survivor will ever feel alone," Felder said. The nonprofit organization educates about cervical cancer and its link to HPV, spreading the message ...

'TAKING OWNERSHIP': Real estate brokerage lets agents be part of ownership team
Destin Log
“We are in a normal real estate market — this is our new normal.” With an office in Destin and one in Seacrest Beach, Eimers Group is looking to expand into Niceville and Sandestin while also expanding into the vacation rental market. ...

5 Things You Need to Know Before the Stock Market Opens
TheStreet.com
[GigaOm] The new normal on Wall Street: Permanent pressures on profitability. [NYT] I know this is hard to believe, but star fund managers are losing investors as they rack up heavy losses. [Reuters] A way for conservative investors to trade financial ...

Tech Earnings in Spotlight: Dave's Daily
TheStreet.com
Volume remains light and perhaps this is now the new normal as many are sitting on their wallets. Breadth per the WSJ was positive but we're short-term overbought now. It wouldn't take much to turn it all over (Iran, eurozone, earnings and so forth.) ...

TheStreet.com

The Chestertown Spy - A “New Normal” emerging for Large Property ...
By Dave Wheelan
A “New Normal” emerging for Large Property Sales on Eastern Shore. January 20, 2012 By Dave Wheelan Leave a Comment. Recent auctions for a number of large homes and properties on the Eastern Shore seem to be pointing to a new ...
The Chestertown Spy

New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and RestrainedeShareholder ...
By Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories
With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results for last year, Wall Street is having to confront doubts about itself. Is this a temporary slump? Or will the moneymakers never get to go back to their high-rolling ways?
eShareholder

Judges in Five States Will Hear Climate Change Cases Filed by ...
By Kelly Matheson
... U.S. youth whose lives have been or will be affected by climate change and the deterioration of our Earth's atmosphere – from the melting permafrost in the Arctic to the drought that is now considered the new normal in America's southwest.
Video For Change

Around Here | Ali Edwards
By Ali
Navigating our new normal and finding places of peace and connection and joy. Riding waves of emotion and working on allowing myself to be present in all aspects. Negotiating money and time. Adoring the addition of our new cat George.
Ali Edwards

New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained. Fri, 01/20/2012 - 08:35 EDT story from Yahoo! Finance: Top Stories. With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results, Wall Street is having to confront doubts ...
Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis

Morning Reading: GE, Google, Greece | Daniel Gross - Yahoo ...
With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley posting weak results this week, some are questioning whether the slump on Wall Street is temporary or a sign of a new normal. The four remaining Republican presidential candidates ...
DANIEL GROSS RSS

hctiB G: Chocolate City | The G Bitch Spot
By G Bitch
Most nodded, many smiled and kept trudging through the New Normal. New Orleans IS different. That's why I moved back 9 years ago, that's why I came to Jazz Fest every year when I didn't live here, that's why I lived New Orleans even when I ...
The G Bitch Spot

10 Friday AM Reads | The Big Picture
By Anna W
New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained (DealBook) see also Morgan Stanley Reducing Senior Pay 20% to 30% (Bloomberg) • The Top 50 Technology Blogs to Watch in 2012 (The Entrepreneur Blog) • Unearned, and Taxed ...
The Big Picture

There is No “New Normal” in the Real Estate Market ...
“New normal” is a shifting term, applicable to virtually every evolving industry. Heck, I've been seeking “new normal” for years. But I thought I'd look at the data ...
www.realcentralva.com/.../there-is-no-new-normal-in-the-real-...

The New Normal? EPA May Send Water to PA Town Whose Wells ...
The New Normal? EPA May Send Water to PA Town Whose Wells Were Tainted by Frackers. Submitted by Sam Durso on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 5:15pm. link: ...
youngphillypolitics.com/new_normal_epa_may_send_water_...

JDA Outlines Supply Chain Strategies for Automotive Companies in ...
To take advantage of this New Normal environment, JDA Software Group, Inc.( NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®,recommends focusing on ...
www.prlog.org/11768039-jda-outlines-supply-chain-strategies...

The Real “New Normal”, Economic Planners, and also Wealth ...
The Real “New Normal”, Economic Planners, and also Wealth Administration at Clarfeld Fiscal. 17.01.2012 | Author: HomerJParke | Posted in Computer ...
www.roisun.net/.../the-real-new-normal-economic-planners-an...

Valerie Casey: The New Normal | Zara Logue
Valerie Casey: The New Normal. Jan 9, 12 10:32 PM. Author Zara Logue Categories Brand, Design Thinking, Designers, Social Design ...
zaralogue.com/2012/01/09/619/

Honda adapts to the new normal with New Mid Concept - Topix
The days of a booming economy when motorcycle manufacturers could sell all the high-end, heavy cruisers they could produce have ended and may never ...
www.topix.com/forum/motorcycles/.../TE5OUVTI1U3A35GJ...

What does the new normal look like?: Lavender Room: Slowtwitch Forums
I lifted the following quote from an older thread because it seems to represent a prevalent sentiment: I think we all need to get our asses used to the notion that ...
forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=3731269;

Felix • The New Normal, previously believed to be...
The New Normal, previously believed to be bell-shaped and thin-tailed in its depiction of growth probability and financial market outcomes, appears to be ...
felixsalmon.tumblr.com/.../the-new-normal-previously-believe...

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