Meredith Whitney
Title: CEO and founder, Meredith Whitney Group
Meredith Whitney's spot-on calls during last year's financial meltdown gave this former Oppenheimer analyst the credibility to start her own firm.
Normally bearish, Whitney upgraded Goldman Sachs in July, jumpstarting a broad market rally led by bank stocks. (She's since lowered her rating on Goldman.)
Whitney was also the only Wall Street analyst at the Fed's much-watched annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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