Weeden's research goal is to produce independent, actionable long/short ideas that are free from the inherent conflicts created by investment banking. At a time when many of our competitors are downsizing their research efforts, Weeden & Co. remains committed to delivering the highest quality investment research to our growing global client base. With the recent addition of two highly ranked energy analysts to compliment Weeden's Senior Energy Analyst, Charley Maxwell, we now have in place one of the most experienced energy research teams on all of Wall Street. Our desire is to grow our research effort to match in service and quality the depth of our offering by our highly ranked block, program and algorithmic trading desks.