Business Books: Shoeshine boy dishes Wall Street dirt

(Reuters) - "They're respecting me a lot more," he said in an interview. "They think I'm like a celebrity." But he still declined to give his real name for fear of reprisals.




The book, written by Doug Stumpf, an editor at Vanity Fair magazine, paints a racy picture of a trading floor where sex, drugs and insider trading run rampant.


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Zimbabwe paves way for nationalising private firms

(Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has set up a state company to seize control of private local and foreign firms that President Robert Mugabe's administration says are engaging in "economic sabotage" in a bid to end his rule.

Mugabe threatened last month to seize private companies for "dirty tricks", including hiking prices and cutting output, which he says are part of a Western-backed "regime-change" agenda led by Zimbabwe's former colonial master Britain.


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