Charting Stocks

The Morgan Stanley Smith Barney deal is now official.  The new wealth management firm officially launched this week and has more than 20,000 financial advisors with $1.7 trillion in client assets. The firm has been formed through a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Morgan paid $2.7 billion for a 51% stake in the [...]

Nationalized Citi disclosed that they spent about $3.5 million to provide rewards for top-performing advisers at its Smith Barney brokerage unit.
Smith Barney’s, the brokerage firm owned by Nationalized Citi,  gave its top 500 stock brokers $3,000 debit cards, according to a by the New York Post. The next 500 brokers received cards for $2,000 [...]

Louise Yamada is widely regarded as one of the top technical analysts in the business. She was a Managing Director and Head of Technical Research for Smith Barney and was the top-ranked market technician in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
In November, Louise stressed the importance of the Dow Jones holding the 2002 lows and warned [...]