21 Quotes by Brad Hintz

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.

This seems to be a case of Mack wanting to put his own team together, ... Stepping back, we'll have to wait and see if Mack is only targeting heads of troubled business units or former Dean Witter people or if he's in the process of gathering an entirely new team. Only time will tell.

The story here is driven by poor trading results. Hanging on the horizon are these storm clouds that emerge from the trading business. Every quarter you are holding your breath.

(A.G. Edwards) brokers are not going to be happy about this, but they know the problems in their industry.

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.

They're all looking for brokers. And that's a very promising sign for this year.

They're making a statement about where they think trading is going to go.

It was a pretty good quarter for most of the firms. Retail is doing very well.

I look at my forecast and, frankly, I was off by $180 million on their investment-banking side. M&A did extremely well.