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20 Sep 2007 21:16

Crisis? What crisis?

By Antony Currie
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Market conditions in the summer were said to be the worst in two decades. Yet as a group Wall Street’s earnings were better than last year. True, Goldman’s bumper quarter did the heavy lifting. But past crises often left brokerages near insolvency or facing losses.

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