"Trick or Treat" on Wall Street
Why, it’s the Halloween costume competition on Friday at the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group. The event, in its second year, has quickly become one of Wall Street’s wackiest rites of fall and is as hotly anticipated as third-quarter earnings.
Ms. Whitney, who came as Paris Hilton, and the other members of her staff vie for the best-dressed honors (and a prize to be determined later), while crunching numbers on their computer screens and assessing the latest figures for gross domestic product.
The rules are as almost as stringent as Regulation FD. “There is a lot of self-imposed pressure,” said Ms. Whitney, clad in a purple sequin frock and oversize sunglasses with a stuffed version of Ms. Hilton’s Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, in tow. “All costumes must be homemade. No Ricky’s.”
Ms. Whitney, who once took investors on a “Blond Ambition” tour of the banking industry, decided to dress as the platinum pop culture celebrity on a lark. “Clearly I went on the side of a scary costume,” she said. “That’s hot.”
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