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| w | Investment
advice offered by analysts are ``so |
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and fraught with conflicts of interest that |
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has become worthless.’’Fortune (2002). |
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| w | Wall
street firms settle conflict of interest |
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| complaints
for $1.4 billion |
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| w | The
settlements erect barriers between the analysts |
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the investment banking business |
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