Seems like Bonuses won't suffer as much as most expected

Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "Securities firms typically use slightly less than 50 percent of their revenue to pay salaries, benefits and bonuses....Year-end bonuses usually account for about 60 percent of compensation. In the first nine months of 2007, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Lehman and Bear Stearns told their shareholders that they set aside $52.4 billion for compensation, up 9 percent from