The securities industry may be "broken," but it's not broken enough to deprive us of another year of Bonus Bouncing stories: "Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, both still on track for profitable years, have set aside about $13 billion for bonuses after three quarters, down 28 percent from a year ago. Even some employees at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which declared the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history last month, will get the same bonus they received a year ago." Alright, now who wants a condo?! [Bloomberg]For more stories from Curbed, go to curbed.com.
