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Thomas Gallagher & team | Thomas Gallagher & team ISI SECOND TEAM Edward Garlich Jr. & team Stanford THIRD TEAM Leslie Alperstein & team Washington Analysis RUNNERS-UP Kim Wallace & team Barclays |
Thomas Gallagher leads the two-member ISI Group team to No. 1 for a sixth straight year (and for the seventh time in the past eight years). Gallagher “is a really good combination of someone who’s a Fed watcher but can also do politics,” declares one backer. The 54-year-old researcher predicted in January that the Federal Reserve Board would switch gears and adopt an “aggressive easing” of interest rates; the Fed has since lowered its benchmark overnight lending rate four times, through mid-September. The Stanford Group Co. team led by Edward Garlich Jr., repeating in second, offers a “tremendous breadth of coverage,” according to one client. Among the 16-member team’s best calls was a January prediction that booming sales of military equipment would continue. By mid-September the Department of Defense had awarded $200 billion in new contracts. Leslie Alperstein guides the Washington Analysis Corp. squad from runner-up to third. In February 2007 the team predicted that the Federal Communications Commission would allow the merger of the only two satellite radio service providers in the U.S., New York’s Sirius Satellite Radio and Washington’s XM Satellite Radio Holdings. The FCC approved the plan in July 2008.
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