Very confident to finish the remaining months of 2001 comparatively good.

Our offer is the more attractive one.

This new organizational alignment allows us to further strengthen the services provided to our clients worldwide.

We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business.

We'll see a lot of all kinds of deals.

We will expand further in asset management, invest significantly in our e-business platform and examine attractive opportunities to fill existing gaps in the areas of M&A and private banking.

Provided no crises occur, we are highly confident that we can sustain this strong performance over the next few months, ... Our optimism is based not least on the brightening prospects for the European economy.

We're building a huge capital market, second only to the US.

We achieved bulge bracket status and only Morgan Stanley is better (in terms of earnings.