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The 50,000-foot view is just that we were delayed in filing some forms and as a public company, we have to file so the Ontario Securities Commission sent us notices and we've been working on it.

John Fitzgerald

There was some more talk around during the day that the Securities and Exchange Commission is over its supposed guidance period for passing back comments and there was no news, so people were thinking maybe a decision must be imminent.

Bernard Hunter

Morgan Stanley achieved strong revenue growth this quarter, particularly across all aspects of our institutional securities business.

John Mack

It's been a 'no-brainer' momentum market where securities analysis isn't important, and now you have almost dangerous valuation levels on those stocks.

James Awad

The new organization will further strengthen self-regulation within the Canadian securities industry and enhance the already strong levels of investor protection and market integrity.

Bill Moriarty

The FSA is concerned about any instances where parties who are made insiders then use that information to trade in related securities.

David Cliffe

The decline was mainly brought on by weak profits at our securities subsidiary.

Victor Kung

That's not acceptable because we were suing under the new securities law and now the court rejects the suit with a rather older explanation given by the supreme court.

Tu Yong

Assuming that most of this windfall for producers will initially be saved, there also is an implicit demand for U.S. securities.

Carl B. Weinberg

You have to know what you're buying in to. Hybrid securities are going to be the most sensitive to any bad times in the credit markets.

Scott Macdonald

This industry really falls into one of those gray areas, where a lot of state insurance commissioners can't regulate them because they are considered securities instruments.

Bob Martin

Securities companies and insurers are suspected of fixing commission fees or insurance premiums, but we have not secured hard-and-fast evidence and thus have no plan of launching an investigation.

Hur Seon

Capacity in the securities industry right now is certainly a challenge for everybody, especially with regard to market data, ... To the extent that these new machines do what they say and you can implement them easily without a lot of application adjustments is a win for Sun. It's certainly something I'm interested in.

Bill Morgan

Companies that wish to access the capital markets in the United States will no longer have the threat of facing securities class actions in 50 different states, with potentially 50 different laws.

Jay Kasner

While this is not a positive development, we believe this is part of the 'dance' most plaintiffs play when faced with securities-related class-action lawsuits.

Jeffrey Silber

The move will help regulators deal with securities crimes more efficiently and help small investors protect their legal rights.

Li Zhi

In our private banking division, declining securities revenues due to lower activity in the U.S.A. was the principal reason for lower profits.

Deutsche Bank

Interest-rate differentials between the U.S. and the euro zone will remain at least as wide as at present, fueling purchases of U.S. securities by foreign investors, both public and private.

Paul Chertkow

It's not a threat to Western civilization. Nonetheless regulators will not tolerate any segment of the securities industry failing to comply with our laws.

David Shellenberger

Moody's chairman, Clifford Alexander, was on the board of WorldCom up until last year, ... The biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, and the chairman of Moody's was on the board. There's no way that should happen. He also shouldn't be on the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. They're supposed to be independent.

Sean Egan

The securities that were deposited ... were essentially of no value.

Michael Watson

When you are not in a public arena, you don't have to worry as much about short-term earnings prospects. The other benefit is that you can save substantial money in not having to do regular public reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission … and onerous requirements related to auditing.

Robert Weible

If you're doing any charitable giving do it with appreciated securities.

Christopher Cordaro

We sold off the securities to improve our margins, as well as absorb the other expenses, to better position ourselves for growth in 2006. We are focused on managing our balance sheet and slowing the growth of non-interest expenses.

Scott Bauer

It will allow the company to replace some amount of securities with auto loans, funded by deposits, which should help returns.

Jennifer Thompson

Our group is trying to convince the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to make its deregistration rules more flexible.

Andrew Bernstein

The market is beginning to focus on the huge U.S. trade imbalance and there is a view that as growth picks up in Japan and interest rates go up, a lot of the money coming from Japan to the U.S. will not come as rapidly into the U.S. securities markets, ... Before Hours .

Robert Hormats

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Billy Connelly

The strategy of taking market share and growing its securities portfolio is going according to plan.

Thane Bublitz

Over the past several years, the Atlas Design Group was instrumental in helping Blue Vase Securities successfully build its marketing image. In fact, Blue Vase Securities was ranked the largest Pittsburgh Area Securities Brokerage firm in 2005, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.

Michael Mccormick

They are buying everything from New York real estate to American securities to corporations to their hard assets. That's what's driving the currency market.

Jesper Koll

We estimate the company has sufficient cash and securities to sustain its operations for several years.

Ross Taylor

Securities companies typically aren't making a lot of loans. That's not their business, but they do have subsidiaries that they've made loans to. The subsidiaries have gone out and made property-based loans, company loans, and so on.

Arthur Alexander

The securities industry had a very good year during 2005. The industry paid record bonuses based on exceptional revenue growth and solid profits.

Alan G. Hevesi

We are committed to providing the market detailed and transparent disclosures on our PC securities, and today we are pleased to announce the names and descriptions of the loan-level variables we intend to begin publishing later this year.

Patricia Cook

The Securities Commission's decision has helped a great deal, although the market is still analyzing to what extent it will help corporate results.

Herminio Lucci

Boeing can easily afford this purchase, with nearly $10 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand at the end of the first quarter, and bountiful free cash flow even after substantial pension fund contributions.

Carol Levenson

We never invested in Sam Israel's hedge fund nor did one trade with his securities company.

Leon Cooperman

Interested in a joint venture in the securities area when an opportunity comes up.

William Rhodes

The returns in the private-equity area have been huge relative to the returns in the public marketable-securities area. Over a period of years, private equity has achieved 20 percent compounded returns.

John Castle

Securities firms that sell variable life insurance products must ensure that they are appropriate for particular investors and that brokers do not mislead their customers about the nature of these products.

Mary Schapiro

Given that and an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we would not add to positions.

Richard Stice

The sale of securities products by banks is being reshaped as we speak in Washington, however in all instances the states want to insure that individual investors are protected.

William Galvin

There is a long-term favorable backdrop to long-term securities in demand from the pension industry.

Jason Evans

It is time for the U.S. securities market to make this change.

Arthur Levitt

This (securities settlement) certainly blows away any we've seen so far.

Bruce Carton

A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. securities, and the future path of the dollar.

James Mccormick

Unfortunately, the infrastructure of Russia's securities market has developed in a speculative way.

Oleg Vyugin

I give them high marks for positioning themselves for a challenging rate environment, and reducing their securities portfolio well in advance of other banks.

Mark Batty

There are several banks and smaller securities companies that are bad.

Arthur Alexander

They're in the Job Corps learning real-life experiences and real life jobs, and we took that to the standard that we would give them the opportunity to be able to fly, experience first hand flying, getting through airport securities and then they'd come back and report.

Craig Baldwin

The more securities you can get on a single platform, the more money you make.

Benn Steil

For banks to be global, they need to -- in their estimation -- have a strong securities presence. For companies to have a strong securities presence internationally and globally they have to have a strong presence in the U.S.

Sallie Krawcheck

I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about since I first began my career in the securities business nearly 38 years ago.

Arthur Levitt

Sandra brings extensive experience in corporate, securities, business practice, and intellectual property law, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and contract negotiations to Mercury. Sandra is a valuable addition to our executive team, and I am pleased to have her join Mercury in this important role.

David Murphy

If U.S. securities laws don't apply [to companies listed on the LSE], it might make some sense.

Michael Goldstein

The exchange has determined that the company securities are no longer suitable for trading on the NYSE.

Ray Pellecchia

It is our view that bankruptcy protection for GM is increasingly looking like a reasonable way to properly address the company's retirement liabilities and job securities benefits.

Ronald Tadross

I suspect this rush to settle the civil antitrust actions and the securities class action are the product of both an approaching deal with the government involving a plea of guilty to criminal price fixing, and also the approaching shareholders meeting.

John Coffee

Now is not a good time to invest in distressed securities.

Barry Colvin

Foreigners continued to buy a considerable amount of securities here in the United States.

Chris Probyn

In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe, this is a brand new, exciting market.

Paul Donnelly

We've seen there's demand for longer-dated securities. The auction will go quite well today.

Cyril Beuzit

It would seem that the salary range is out of line with what you would expect across the country, and Ontario, which is the largest securities commission, pays considerably less, ... It really seems to me that the salary here is too high.

Brian Mason

Particularly with securities class actions, he will not let class actions go forward lightly.

Robin Conrad

For our banking activity, the second half has started well, and we expect continued progress at a modest level. Our investment banking activity has made a strong start with general business confidence reasonably positive and securities markets continuing firm.

Colin Keogh

It's as formal as trading securities on the stock market.

Michael Shore

It's the U.S. securities market's way to get back business we've lost.

Benn Steil

Rising long-term rates tend to benefit banks by allowing them to increase yields on securities portfolio investments.

Piper Jaffray

We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us.

Patty Smith

The securities laws say you cannot make use for personal gain of confidential information you obtained in a fiduciary capacity. If the First Boston analysts made no use of it, then there is not an issue. There also is an issue of whether the information they obtained was confidential and material.

Robert Litt

Given the lingering uncertainty related to the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and the management distractions of the past few months, it's likely that our earnings-per-share estimates for Titan, of 74 cents in 2004 and $1 in 2005, will need to be revisited.

Adam Weiner

The sale of the Archipelago brokerage subsidiary was obligated by an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission as a condition to Archipelago's acquisition of the Pacific Exchange Inc., in September 2005.

Mike Cormack

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

Jane Bryant Quinn

There are still investors who need to buy to match the increase in the index. That will help longer bonds such as 10-year securities.

Akito Fukunaga

The House bill basically punted most responsibilities to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Senate bill takes a more aggressive stance in protecting investors, in our opinion.

Tyson Slocum

The securities issue is potentially lethal for him. He has not yet really explained why he did this at this particular time.

Jan Baran

The portfolio decline was mainly a product of our desire to be opportunistic, and the spreads between mortgage-backed securities and agency debt were not conducive for growth. The tightness of spreads gave us fewer opportunities to grow.

Michael Cosgrove

Investors have been buying a lot of securities in the last year that haven't made a lot of sense to buy. They bought stocks without knowing why, and so now they're selling stocks without knowing why.

Scott Kahan

Nazi gold has become shorthand for the whole array of looted assets. So, yes we're talking about securities, art, bank accounts, life insurance policies, and other such assets.

Elan Steinberg

Because there have been no settlements reached for the securities action with any of the less-involved banks, it is difficult to know what reserves are prudent.

Ted Clark