Financial Printing--Strength In Numbers

Financial printing is benefiting from a robust M&A market, continued mutual fund surges and (surprise!) the Internet, as 2000 sets its sights on Wall Street.

In 1997, the financial printing market was considered by some financial printers to be the hottest bull market in modern history. By the end of 1998, the same financial printing insiders were less enthused, dubbing 1998 a year of difficult "highs and lows," as the financial printing market and its lifemate—Wall Street—rode out a year that, for the market's competitive printers, was burdened with a dramatic downturn of transactional business.