sure hope someones have Meredith Whitney's back

[donsu]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece


Top US analyst hits back after death threats over Citigroup downgrade


Meredith Whitney, the analyst who prompted a $369 billion (£177 billion) plunge in the value of US shares on Thursday by issuing a negative note on Citigroup, hit out at Wall Street’s culture of intimidation yesterday after receiving several death threats from investors in the bank.

Ms Whitney, a CIBC analyst who is married to the former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Death Mask, prompted a near 7 per cent drop in Citigroup’s shares on Thursday, after suggesting that the bank needed to raise more than $30 billion to restore its capital cushion.

She also downgraded her recommendation on Citigroup’s shares to “market underperform” in the note that set off America’s biggest stock market decline since August.

Ms Whitney, Forbes’s second-highest ranked stock picker for 2007, told The Times: “People are scared to be negative, especially when a company has such a wide holding. Clients are not pleased with my call and I have had several death threats.

“But it was the most straightforward call I’ve made in my career and I am surprised my peer analysts have been resistant. It’s so straightforward, it’s indisputable.”
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cripe

[BrklynLib at work]

1. Nowadays, attacking a corporation is treason.......

[AX10]

3. And that is facsism.

[AX10]

2. I wonder if Bernanke has recieved any credible threats on his life.

Could that explain the reason he is flooding the market with cheap money and making a bad situation worse? :shrug: