kidder peabody
<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Kidder, Peabody & Co.</b> was an American securities firm, established in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Massachusetts</a> in 1865. Its operations included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_banking" title="Investment banking" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">investment banking</a>, brokerage, and trading.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Firm was sold to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">General Electric</a> in 1986. Following heavy losses, it was subsequently sold to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaineWebber" class="mw-redirect" title="PaineWebber" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PaineWebber</a> in 1994. After the acquisition by PaineWebber, the Kidder Peabody name was dropped, ending the firm's 130-year presence on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wall Street</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> In November 2000, PaineWebber itself was merged with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_AG" class="mw-redirect" title="UBS AG" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">UBS AG</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none; font-size: 12.502px;"> [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#Early_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early history</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#In_the_70s.2C_R.26D_and_finance" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">In the 70s, R&D and finance</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#Kidder_and_the_1980s_insider_trading_scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Kidder and the 1980s insider trading scandal</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#1994_bond_trading_scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">1994 bond trading scandal</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#September_11.2C_2001_terrorist_attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">1.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#Associated_people" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Associated people</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder,Peabody%26_Co.#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li></ul></div>