very confident to finish the remaining months of 2001 comparatively good.
We achieved bulge bracket status and only Morgan Stanley is better (in terms of earnings,
Nobody can be happy with the price of the euro, ... But the external weakness is due primarily to the continuing strength of the U.S. economy. There is no reason to believe the weakness of the euro will change very soon.
We have other options, but if London comes to the conclusion that going together with Frankfurt is not such a bad idea, which I think is likely, then I think that Frankfurt would not say no,
We're building a huge capital market, second only to the US,
We're also talking about job cuts in our private banking business,
We are confident that the positive development of our earnings will continue in the course of the year if the market remains positive,
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,
We will encourage him to stay, regardless of the personal hardship he would be put through (by a retrial).
This system did not exist, ... We feel unjustly accused. Therefore, we're calm about this case being solved because there's nothing there.
financial crises in the emerging markets, especially in Russia.
There is nothing I could tell the shareholders ... In this industry, everyone speaks with everyone else, but there were no takeover discussions.
This new organizational alignment allows us to further strengthen the services provided to our clients worldwide.
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.
The large U.S. investment banks are tremendously strong because they have the strongest capital market of the world as their home territory,
I have no reason to believe that this credibility is coming into doubt in Europe.