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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (15240)	8/26/2002 9:39:09 AM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 80904

"Analyzing what went wrong in the '90s, we can identify two specific elements: a decline in professional standards and a dramatic rise in conflicts of interest." You know Searle, somewhere in the mid-'90's a brokerage firm put out a "buy" on a certain utility. I asked a professional if the stock was likely to go up and his reply was that the brokerage firm was probably interested in selling into any further buying. So I think most brokers knew well before the peak that buys and sell issued were often conflicts of interest situations.