Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney made a rash of calls and got the waivers.
First, Citigroup has lost its flagship retail brokerage operation, Salomon Smith Barney, to Morgan Stanley.
"This is a disastrous result for Sainsbury's, " an analyst at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney said.
Order stocks from your Salomon Smith Barney broker, and the trade receipt shows the commission.
"AMR is playing a weak hand, " says Brian Harris, airline analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.
Mamoun Tazi of Salomon Smith Barney says most look at absolute numbers rather than fundamentals.
"The banking sector in Taiwan is quite weak, " says John Caparusso of Salomon Smith Barney in Taipei.
Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney says it's opening nearly twice as many new charitable trusts this year as last.
According to Salomon Smith Barney, over 40% of American investment equipment is imported, compared with 25% in 1992.
Mr Spitzer is in settlement talks with Citigroup over potential conflicts of interest within its subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney.
Maughan, the former CEO of Salomon Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers, had overall responsibility for Citigroup's successful expansion into Asia.
"It is an opportunity to acquire a brand with a higher price-point, " says Salomon Smith Barney retail analyst Kent Chan.
Some of the major wire houses, including Merrill Lynch, Prudential and Salomon Smith Barney, also run supermarkets of a sort.
Johno Toshiyuki, an analyst with Nikko, Salomon Smith Barney, says Kajima has taken a big writedown in its land assets.
But Lim, head of research in Singapore for Salomon Smith Barney, believes the island republic's recent performance is well supported.
"There have been too few deals in Asia, " says Raymond Lee, bank analyst for Salomon Smith Barney in Hong Kong.
"San Miguel's fair value is 35 pesos a share, " says Anil Daswani, an analyst with Salomon Smith Barney in Hong Kong.
Internet analyst Mamoun Tazi, of investment bank Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, said investors in e-commerce stocks were nervous about online security.
Simon Taylor of Salomon Smith Barney estimates that all three companies are trading at a 20-25% discount to their break-up value.
Merrill Lynch, for example, rates Vail a "strong buy, " while Intrawest's supporters include Nattel, O'Rourke and Salomon Smith Barney's Jill Krutick.
About half of the profits in the chemical division come from a single chemical, carbonate, according to Andrew Benson at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney.
Corporate and investment bankers from Salomon Smith Barney continued to use the red umbrella after the 1998 merger of Travelers and Citicorp.
At Salomon Smith Barney, the heads of companies that hired the firm got first dibs on hot initial offerings of internet stocks.
Salomon Smith Barney predicts that Mexico will eventually have five large banks, as against seven now and most of them will be foreign-owned.
To run the show, Schwab has poached the executive who runs managed accounts at Salomon Smith Barney, the largest marketer of the investments.
Salomon Smith Barney was later hired to sell 35% of CAL to a U.S. carrier, but disagreements over the price scuttled the deal.
Jack Grubman, a Salomon Smith Barney star analyst, even sat in on board meetings at WorldCom, a deeply corrupt telecoms firm, offering advice.
Even more attractive are its 10m pension-fund customers, accounting for nearly one-third of the Latin American pensions market, according to Salomon Smith Barney.
Patrick Lambert of Salomon Smith Barney, an American broker, reckons that big firms can no longer think like commodity businesses or local utilities.
Citigroup is soon to reveal the number of claimants under the settlement of a discrimination suit against its investment-banking arm, Salomon Smith Barney.
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