With Wall Street in the doldrums, bonuses for 2008 could drop 50 percent from the previous year, rivaling the fall in 2003, Thomas P.DiNapoli, the New York State comptroller, recently predicted.

• 纽约州审计长汤玛斯．狄那波里最近预估，华尔街萧条后，2008年红利可能比前一年掉五成，和2003年衰退幅度差不多。