It was not to be, largely because his father, Malachy, usually spent his scant laborer's earnings at the local bar.
Closing June 11 at $58.72, the company trades for a scant 5.8 times trailing earnings, and it has a debt-free balance sheet.
Those seeking higher pay have scant hope.
On a day with little earnings or economic news, investors saw scant reason to buy stocks a day after the main indexes had their biggest gains in nearly two months, traders said.
With scant economic data expected this week and the flow of quarterly earnings still light, investors were warily sorting through the first profit reports.
It's true that many of the remaining companies may bring that total below 10%, but a scant few weeks ago most pundits had first-quarter 2007 earnings estimates at about 3.5%.
The U.S. is doing only slightly better, with positive economic growth but scant progress on the jobs front, and no growth in the earnings of the vast majority of Americans.
He joined Citi only in April, snipe the critics; this is his first time in the boss's chair at a listed company; and he has scant experience of consumer banking, which accounts for half of Citi's earnings.For Mr Pandit and Marcel Rohner, his counterpart at UBS, the priority is to stabilise their banks.
"In the meeting, it became clear that next year is going to be a transition year and not great, either," said Ms. Ghez, who reduced her earnings expectations for 2001 by 5 cents, to $1.75, which is scant improvement on the $1.65 expected this year.
During that same period, earnings per share increased 19%, and return on equity rose 15%, with scant leverage.
