As Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and other finances houses were announcing their staggering losses, Wall Street released one other telling figure. Bonuses paid out for the five biggest financial firms topped a record $39 billion in 2007, [#4198344@0 -ROLIA.NET 相约加拿大网上社区 之 枫下论坛 & 枫下部落, 枫下论坛主坛 ]
As Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and other finances houses were announcing their staggering losses, Wall Street released one other telling figure. Bonuses paid out for the five biggest financial firms topped a record $39 billion in 2007,
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the vast bulk of this fortune going to a relative handful of top executives.They pocketed these immense sums even as their shareholders suffered losses of more than $80 billion and as they prepared the wave of mass layoffs that is now beginning to sweep through the finance industry.