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I got a good laugh from that

George — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:45:49 -0400

I got a good laugh from that one. It's scary how funny the truth can be.

Awesome write-up. As to be

Jason — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:27:16 -0400

Awesome write-up. As to be expected, they are "selling" their research. When one buys a report, chances are they are looking for reasons to purchase the stock, not sell. No one would buy reports if they were all pragmatic-realism :)

Sell Side Cliches

alesia — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:51:37 -0400

So I worked on the buy side for nine years and like all buy side people, I read my fair share of sell side research reports. After a while, they all began to blur together into an unending mass of paper. I noticed that there was a common set of terms or cliches that all the analysts used. Here is my list and my spin on them