Brad Hintz
Brad Hintz
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We are probably at the point where the trading cycle is slowing, at least in North America, and it's tough to say investment banking will get better. But the retail and asset management businesses look really good. That's what's exciting to investors.
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They're all looking for brokers. And that's a very promising sign for this year.
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Investment banking really did knock the cover off the ball. We're moving from a pretty weak performance into a better-performing business.
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I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.
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The hedge funds have come roaring into the commodities market, and they are willing to take risks.
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It doesn't take a lot of people to run this business. It certainly takes very little amounts of capital, and as you gain more and more assets, your margins expand.
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(A.G. Edwards) brokers are not going to be happy about this, but they know the problems in their industry.
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Investment banking is relatively easy to forecast, but the trading side is a tough one.
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They're making a statement about where they think trading is going to go.
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Merchant banking remains an exceptional business for the handful of Wall Street firms that have remained in it. Unfortunately, the disclosure of merchant banking portfolio positions is weak, and forecasting these gains is at best challenging.
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Physical pricing knowledge in crude and refined products represents the keys to the castle.
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This is a business of reputation, and when chief executives are making M&A decisions that could affect their own career paths, they don't want to take a chance.
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Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.
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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.