peHUB Second Opinion 11.10.08

Hold Your Breath: More than 80% of Silicon Valley's 150 largest public companies have employees with "underwater" stock options. Meaning, they can't buy stock at the price their company is trading at these days. Top 25 Private Equity Schools: Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Northwestern, the list goes on... Leveraged Loans Are Taking a Beating: But we all knew that. Just How Leveraged Are We: Carlyle's Randal Quarles provides some insight. And guess what, he uses the "D" word. Speaking Of The D Word: Young New Yorkers are partying like its 1929 and Depression-era art and clothing styles are blowing up, BusinessWeek reports. It's translating into marketing campaigns for some companies.

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