
If you own Goldman Sachs Group Inc - GS shares, you should be very worried based on what has happened to companies featured on Economist cover. Go back and look at EBAY (eBay Inc)and WMT (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) in recent years.


Update: Roberto's Nasdaq Trader has more on this.
Here is how the Brokerage services group performed today.
Lazard Ltd LAZ 44.40 -0.35 (-0.78%)
The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. BSC 142.51 -2.58 (-1.78%)
Morgan Stanley MS 64.30 -0.67 (-1.03%)
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH 151.15 -4.86 (-3.12%)
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. MER 76.26 -2.20 (-2.80%)
Jefferies Group, Inc. JEF 66.45 -2.08 (-3.04%)
First Albany Companies Inc. FACT 5.33 -0.10 (-1.84%)
UBS AG (USA) UBS 116.85 +0.19 (0.16%)
Piper Jaffray Companies PJC 69.90 -1.95 (-2.71%)
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. FBR 10.81 +0.46 (4.44%)