Merrill Lynch offers the starkest example. It’s now worth about half the value of its holdings – excluding its trading businesses. This may be bull-market thinking, but it’s hard to see how Merrill will screw things up this badly going forward. Sign up to read the rest of this subscriber-only content, or if you are already a member please sign in here.
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