Securities Quotations

The major driver of economics is the equilibrium approach, which has taken various forms over the years. General equilibrium is the statement that all the different parts of the economy influence each other, even if it's remote, like mortgage-backed securities and their demands on automobiles.

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

We are seeing a new appetite for south-of-the-border securities coming from U.S. investors who have started realizing that the extraordinary returns they saw in 1995 and '96 will not be repeated again, so they're looking for opportunities elsewhere.

We believe that securities we are buying are undervalued relative to the market, but in general, the small cap market is overvalued right now because of the considerable run up.

We're in an environment where shorter duration securities will be cheapest to deliver. It (the 30-year bond) does not have a chance of being the cheapest to deliver.

What happens to these securities it's up to the investors, not any government agency.

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

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.

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

We are taking this step to secure permanent capital to grow; to share ownership broadly among our employees now and through future compensation; and to permit us to use publicly traded securities to finance strategic acquisitions that we may elect to make in the future.

This program has attracted new capital to the mortgage securities market, and has created better securities to fit investors needs and further supports our mission.

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Last year saw a doubling of financing activity for hotel real estate in the commercial mortgage-backed securities sector and we see another strong year ahead.

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,

Shirley McClellan needs to step in immediately to restore some semblance of credibility in Alberta's securities market, ... I just fear the damage is already severe.

Simply put, this is the first time that domestic households and firms have been granted official access to overseas securities markets.

Net interest margin and Net interest income were stronger than expected, as BAC kept a tight lid on deposit pricing, shrank the securities portfolio and delivered strong loan growth. This should help reduce investor concerns on the bank's ability to manage through the flat yield curve.

One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

Multinational/trust banks will probably broadly deliver on Wall Street estimates. However, we expect the quality of earnings to be poor as securities gains and other unusual items will commonly be used to offset weak trading results.

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.

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

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

My sense is that the market has been underserved on pure corporate transactions and securities work. We are doing our best to keep some of that work in the marketplace.

I'd characterize the local economy as relatively strong over all. Commercial real estate, the securities industry, and thus personal income and tax revenues, and, to a lesser extent, the labor market are all showing signs of strengthening. The housing market has shown some signs of cooling recently, but remains pretty strong in terms of levels.

Barry is a highly regarded regulator and is widely respected among the financial services, business and regulatory communities. His experience in handling sophisticated securities enforcement matters and expertise in brokerage firm operations will be invaluable. We are delighted to add such a distinguished lawyer with deep senior-level regulatory and litigation experience to the securities group.

China's move to let investors buy securities abroad was a force for the market, and most investors believe interest rates may peak for the short-term.

China can quickly move forward with further liberalization of its financial services sector by allowing foreign securities firms to establish wholly owned subsidiaries, and by expanding the scope of products securities firms can offer,

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

If a doctor breaks securities laws or his or her confidentiality agreement with a pharmaceutical research company to gain financially, they should be severely punished.

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

If the amount of capital flows into U.S. securities misses the market forecast for the second straight month, that could lead to further declines in the dollar given the current (market) conditions.

We expect to see continued adoption of stream processing within the securities industry as firms move beyond low latency trading and focus on other vital aspects of the business, such as risk management, compliance analysis and liquidity management.

There is more risk in owning longer-dated securities in a period of rising inflation.

There is an accounting benefit because unrealized securities losses were the biggest risk factor for the bank. It may be positive for its shares, but there is no economic merit.

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.

It is clear from recent events -- including the program the president is announcing this morning to improve and strengthen the duties of those whose conduct is at the core of our securities markets -- that the SEC critically needs to receive additional money in fiscal 2003 to fully fund pay parity and that we should be authorized to add new staff to address pressing immediate needs,

It gives brokers a new revenue channel. The program may be expanded to more securities firms but the pace will be slow as authorities want to contain risks.

It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole.

I think the Securities and Exchange Commission better look at this because what you've got is prior misstatement,

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

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." ()

Over 700 investors, a number of them retirees, were defrauded by this scheme. Significant sentences send a strong message to those who would consider committing securities fraud.

Our association with CDS helps us to deliver an integrated reference data platform that reduces implementation time and complexity, while delivering accurate, timely reference data on the full range of Canadian debt and equity securities across an enterprise. This is the foundation to achieving an effective enterprise data management strategy.

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

Regulations require broker-dealers to create and preserve a comprehensive record of each securities transaction they effect and of their securities business in general. These requirements are integral to the investor protection function because the preserved records are the primary means of monitoring compliance with applicable securities laws, including anti-fraud provisions and financial responsibility standards.

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

Stepped-up U.S. appetite for foreign securities and less foreign appetite for U.S. Treasuries have come together to make this a weak number.

My office, while committed to working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in our investigation of the mutual fund industry, will not be party to settlements that fail to protect the interests of investors and let the industry off with little more than a slap on the wrist,

My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.

Loan and deposit growth was strong across all markets. Total assets at year-end were $5.9 billion, a 15% increase from a year ago. Loans increased $144 million during the fourth quarter, or 14% on an annualized basis, and helped drive the increase in net interest revenue. Our net interest margin rose to 4.20%, up 15 basis points from a year ago and up three basis points from last quarter, as increasing short-term interest rates continued to positively affect our slightly asset-sensitive balance sheet. Fee revenue, excluding securities losses taken in the fourth quarter of 2005, was up 12%, reflecting increases in nearly every category.

We continued to produce outstanding results, with nine-month earnings 35 percent ahead of last year's record pace. Our third-quarter results reflect significant breadth, with record operating results in Discover Card and asset management and another outstanding quarter in the securities business.

When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

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

We are pleased that Brotherhood Bank & Trust has chosen our new Xcitek Class Actions service. The product was designed specifically for financial institutions like Brotherhood which, whether acting as principal or in trust for clients, need to stay abreast of securities class actions developments that impact their portfolios.

Today President Bush acknowledged that conflicts of interest by securities analysts are a major problem, but he did not articulate a solution,

What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to give highly-appreciated securities to the program. A lot of this giving is to very targeted, local charities. It's getting right back on the streets.

The real short-term outlook for us is pretty positive given that we don't see a Fed rate hike in August and that due to political noise, if you will, we are not going to see a rate hike in October. But on the earnings front it is a different issue. Looking into 2000, our longer-term forecast, we've had two great years of earnings growth. We think it is going to be pretty difficult to show up with another year of 30-to-40 percent earnings growth. So, consequently, our message has been a lot more selective about the securities that we want investors to focus on.

Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?

This trend suggests that the securities litigation market is now even more focused on the validity of financial results and forecasts presented in financial documents such as SEC filings and press releases.

with a view to ensuring that investors in all mortgage-backed securities are provided with the information that they should have.

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.

Under these circumstances, the securities laws entitle investors to full and fair disclosure, which they did not receive in these cases.

Both survey data and the market prices of inflation-protected Treasury securities tell us that the public expects inflation to continue to be contained. I am confident that we at the Fed have the knowledge and the will to validate those expectations.

While we expect the operating environment to remain positive for the securities firms throughout 2006, we feel that much of this 'good news' is already priced into the brokerage stocks.

Women are more likely to be found in a senior role in a market such as asset-backed securities than in equities , where an 'old boy network' may still exist.

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.

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.

We are very pleased with the way the pilot has begun.  Trading has gone according to plan for all 15 securities today.

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.

Excluding securities losses in the fourth quarter of 2005, core fee revenue growth from a year ago was $1.3 million, or 12%, with steady growth achieved in nearly every category. Service charges and fees on deposit accounts increased $970,000 to $6.6 million, primarily due to growth in transactions and new accounts resulting from core deposit program and the cross-selling of other products and services. Brokerage fees increased 85% to $789,000 due to strong market activity. Consulting fees of $1.7 million were down slightly, due to the timing of work completed last year for the documentation and testing of internal controls in our risk management practice.

There's probably 1,400 or 1,500 comic book items on the site at any time. It remains a very popular area of the site. I'm sure people buy and sell comic books the same way they do stocks, other securities or fine wine.

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

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.

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,

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.

The serious nature of the reported findings and allegations, coupled with the grave implications if these allegations are meritorious, compel me ... to refer these matters to the Department of Justice and to the Securities Exchange Commission for consideration.

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

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

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

The securities industry had a very good year during 2005.

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

The secular trend of foreign private interest in U.S. securities is likely to continue as long as the U.S. economy remains strong.

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

probably the Securities and Exchange Commission and the attorney general should have been on top of, but aren't.

Often it will be in the annual report. Certainly, securities analysts are continuously asking the question to make sure that in fact the companies are up to speed.

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

The move to penny increments, ... greatly reduced spreads in those securities trading in pennies and narrower spreads have been cited as one of the factors that led to a decrease in the use of payment for order flow in securities traded as pennies. Payment for order flow could similarly be reduced in options if spreads are narrowed.

Activity is the mother's milk of the securities industry and activities of all sorts was very strong for these reporting periods.

A recovering stock market may be the main attraction for insurers that placed more in securities investment funds. With expanding assets, insurers seek more investment alternatives and have added investment volume.

As commodities fluctuate, underlying securities will follow... That's where they are going to trade for the next little while, as we're going to see volatile swings of this nature.

As a safety precaution while the tragic events of today are sorted out, the securities markets have decided not to open for trading today. We strongly support that decision.

Al brings a wealth of experience to Financial Network. His depth of experience with a variety of securities organizations can only help us improve our already strong compliance culture.

This is an excellent partnership that gives First Union a nationwide securities business, ... This transaction will substantially strengthen our distribution capabilities for equity capital markets activities as well as retail investment products and wealth management activities.

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.

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.

This just adds fuel to the fire for those of us who say that there's a major reform that's necessary of the securities commission,