Stifel Financial Corporation

Stifel Financial Corporation is listed on NYSE (SF). Stifel Financial Corp. (Financial), a Delaware corporation and a holding company for Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated (Stifel Nicolaus) and other subsidiaries, was organized in 1983. Stifel Nicolaus is the successor to a partnership founded in 1890. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term Company as used herein means Stifel Financial Corp. and its subsidiaries. The Company offers securities-related financial services through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, Stifel Nicolaus and Century Securities Associates, Inc. (CSA). These subsidiaries provide brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related financial services primarily to customers throughout the United States from 135 locations. The Companys customers include individuals, corporations, municipalities, and institutions.

Stillwater Mining Company

Stillwater Mining Company is listed on NYSE (SWC). Stillwater Mining Company is engaged in the exploration, development, mining and production of platinum, palladium and associated metals from the Stillwater Complex in southern Montana, which the Company believes is the only significant primary source of platinum and palladium outside the Republic of South Africa. The Stillwater Complex includes an extensive mineralized zone containing platinum group metals (PGMs) known as the J-M Reef which has been traced on surface for approximately 28 miles and which extends downward over one mile to unknown depths. The Stillwater Complex has been prospected for gold, copper, nickel and chromium since the late 1880s. The Company currently owns or has the rights to 995 claims covering substantially all of the presently identified PGM mineralized zone. The Company began mining operations in 1986 with an underground mine located in the Stillwater Valley.

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U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. ..sportation services, principally for refined petroleum products, in the U.S. domestic coastwise trade. We are also involved, to a limited extent, in t..

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AirNet Systems Inc. ..arrier for time-sensitive deliveries, operating between most U.S. cities each working day. AirNet is the leading transporter of cancelled checks and r..

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