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35. Meredith Whitney

Meredith Whitney

Managing Director and Senior Financial Institutions Analyst
Oppenheimer & Co.

Previous rank: New
Age: 38

Her dead-on prediction last October that Citi would have to sell assets or cut its dividend, and her early warnings about the credit crisis, have made Whitney the go-to bank stock analyst on Wall Street.

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Last updated October 16 2008: 10:16 AM ET

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