For employees at the biggest Wall Street banks, 2012 brought
a humbling post-crisis reality of job cuts, lower pay and tarnished
reputations. According to Bloomberg gurus for investors, it was a happier story.
The 81-company Standard & Poor’s 500 Financial Index
(S5FINL) is up 27 percent this year, its largest annual increase since 2003,
led by a 104 percent gain in Bank of America Corp. The index beat the broader
S&P 500 Index for the first time since 2006.
Shareholders, impatient for the industry to boost profit,
were rewarded as Wall Street firms cut jobs and pay, and exited businesses. The
shrinking unnerved employees, who watched the chiefs of two big banks lose
their jobs and others contend with a drop in deal making and stock trading,
stiffer regulations, trading losses, rating downgrades and scandals involving
interest-rate manipulation and money laundering....
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