21. "We are cautiously optimistic, " said Juan Arranz, analyst at Santander Investment Securities in New York. 22. Income from securities trading, investment securities and other non-lending operations rose 24 percent to $ 119.9 million. 23. MBf Finance has also made additional provision for RM157.6 million for diminution in value of investment securities . 24. Results in 1994 included gains from the sale of investment securities of $ 6 . 4 million. 25. "All that puts an additional pressure on Singapore dollar, " said Nicholas Brooks of Santander Investment Securities . 26. First, the coupling of feed-in tariffs to the electricity price proved too volatile to ensure investment security . 27. Simon's William E . Simon & Sons LLC recently teamed up with Denver-based Cherokee Investment Security LLC. 28. Noninterest income more than doubled due to a $ 25.3 million profit from the sale of investment securities . 29. So far, FirstBank has offset the cost of boosting its provision for loan losses by selling investment securities . 30. There are separate issues connected with the repatriation of foreign currency and with the status of investment securities ,