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Bonuses and salaries have been cut at all of the big Wall Street firms.

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“It is what it is. But what are you going to do?”

Standing in Grand Central Terminal, a veteran employee of a giant financial-services firm—one of those companies with two names that is in the news a lot—was uncharacteristically fatalistic.

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