A Harris release on the February 16-21 telephone survey of 1,010 adults did not specify how financial regulation should be applied but said three-quarters of Americans believe Wall Street companies should pay bonuses only while in the black.Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad heredap('&PG=NBCMSB&AP=1089','300','250');Harris said the U.S. public does see value in Wall Street itself: nearly 60 percent say the financial sector is an essential benefit to the United States.But a slightly larger majority disagrees that what is good for Wall Street is good for the country, while about two-thirds harbor strong negative views about the people who work there.By a margin of 66 percent to 29 percent, Americans agree that "most people on Wall Street would be willing to break the law if they believed they could make a lot of money and get away with it," pollsters found.Sixty-five percent say most successful people on Wall Street do not deserve the kind of money they make.
Leonardo Gottems on 21 Jun 12An unexpected 8.5 percent purchase of YPF by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, has brought also optimism for the Buenos Aires stock exchange Merval. After weeks of losses due to the seizure of 51 percent of the company by the Argentinian government, YPF's stocks had a high of 9.08 percent last Friday. The stocks in New York also grew - by 6.89 percent and closing the trades at US$ 11.17. It also reflected on other oil companies traded at Merval such as Petrobras Energía, which had a 10.79 percent high. The Merval index had a 3.5 percent high, after some bad weeks.
