... rhymes." I can remember when I was a lad and my grandfather, the original Dean Witter, would regale me with stories of "way back when- in the stock market. One of my favorites was that at night, two men in green eyeshades would post all the firm's orders by hand across a table from each other ... in the back office, each posting half the trades and then the other double-checking the work. Stock price quotes were not 15-minute delayed (let alone realtime), but worked off of the price printed in the previous afternoon's San Francisco Examiner! Were ... , not just invest their money blindl...

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... trustworthy bank or you are the world's largest corporation looking for a strong firm, Citigroup has the capabilities. Twelve financial services are offered including simple banking, credit cards, loans and mortgages, investing and asset management, bill payment, international banking and management, small business, corporate and investment banking services, treasury and cash management services, global securities services, government services, and corporate benefit ... corporate name (AT&T Online). Citigroup has made it's own little world surrounding the financial market. We have their ...

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... Warren's love for number crunching and capitalism. In the archives of history, he will simply be remembered as "the greatest stock market investor of modern times." At an early age in life, Buffett began to develop an affinity toward the art of investing. As a matter of fact, he was only eleven years old when he purchased his first shares of Cities Service ... Preferred. At $38 per share, these shares became the first baby steps in the life of who would eventually become America's second wealthiest individual. As a teenager, Buffett turned his investing interests toward real estate. Buf...

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