Investment bankers are generally a strange bunch.
Take any leading stock and some will take a buoyant view while others are more or less pessimistic, even though they are all working from much the same set of data and company core information. Sumner Redstone, Viacom's chairman, reports a more bullish view. In August, Fortune magazine listed the ten best stocks to hold for the next ten years, not just in media. And Viacom was the only major media company to be listed. They said if you missed Microsoft, Intel or Cisco, then don't fret because these ten stocks are going to do in the next ten years what those others did in the past.