Williams, Dynegy and El Paso (a slightly less troubled trading firm) have all announced deep cuts to their trading-floor staff.
Sales in the beauty category rose 22percentt last year, according to Forrester Research, an online consulting firm, slightly less than the overall e-commerce increase of 25percentt.
Three months later, the firm owned slightly less than 400,000 shares through three mutual funds, Weitz Hickory, Weitz Value and Weitz Partners Value.
The firm runs slightly less than $1 billion out of Seattle and is well known only to a small coterie of banks and advisers that sell its products.
Zoe Osman, a recruiter at Concilium Finance in London, said, "We're now seeing a skill shortage and a lack of talent," adding, "Firms are becoming slightly less picky".
A third worry is that the UPP gauge ignores the effect of third parties who may be only slightly less close competitors to the merging firms than they are to each other.
Its location at Lexington and 51st Street has made it an ideal site for back offices for financial firms lining Park Avenue, such as Bear Stearns, as well as for law firms and investment groups with slightly less lofty names.
In 1990, 100 VC firms were actively investing, with slightly less than $30 billion under management, according to the NVCA.
The other, Sergey Brin, has slightly less, $19.6 billion, according to Equilar, an executive compensation research firm in Redwood Shores, Calif.
