Wedbush Securities’ Corinna Freedman Ranks

Wedbush Securities, one of the nation’s leading broker-dealers and award-winning equity research firms, congratulates Corinna Freedman, Vice President, Equity Research, as she secures the number one position in The Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” survey in the “Clothing & Accessories” category. The publication selected these “master stock pickers” calculating performance scores “based on estimated total return, including price changes and dividends, of each eligible stock an analyst covered in an industry, as well as the number of stocks the analyst covered within that industry. Analysts got credit for being right about buy and sell recommendations.”

“Covering a variety of retailers including Fifth & Pacific Cos, Coach, Deckers, Michael Kors and Nike, allows Corinna to offer insightful analysis to investors throughout clothing and accessories,” said Mark Benson, Director of Research, Wedbush Securities. “We’re pleased to see Corinna recognized for her stock picking abilities and excellent performance over the past year.”

“Trends are getting faster and faster, and the consumer is armed with a ridiculous amount of product and pricing information,” Ms. Freedman told The Wall Street Journal. “I primarily look for stocks with catalysts and differentiated products that are resonating well with customers.”

Wedbush Equity Research offers in-depth and differentiated research coverage across a wide variety of consumer, technology and life sciences sectors. The team, comprised of more than 25 publishing analysts, generates timely, insightful analyses including the firm’s award-winning Wedbush Best Ideas List - an actively monitored compilation of stock ideas identifying outperformance trends over the forward 6 to 12 month period. Wedbush Equity Research has repeatedly been named a “Top Stock Picking Firm” by Barron’s and Zacks Investment Research, and consistently ranks among the industry’s leading performance surveys including StarMine’s “Analyst Performance Survey,” Financial Times’ “Top Analysts,” Institutional Investor’s “Rising Stars of Wall Street Research” and The Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the Street.”

Police said the message was written in black magic marker on the cafeteria window at Baldwin High School on Ethel T. Kloberg Drive between 10:30 p.m. Friday and 8:07 a.m. Saturday.

Officials did not disclose the content of the message, but students said it was a bomb threat.“It stated that the school was gonna blow up on certain days at certain times,” sophomore Daniel Fisher told CBS 2/s Kathryn Brown.In response to the threat, additional security was provided at the school on Monday.

The school felt more like an airport security checkpoint as students checked their book bags at the front door and were forced to turn over everything except what they could hold or fit into clear plastic bags.“It’s happened several times before so it gets kind of annoying,” freshman Tyler Ortiz told CBS 2′s Janelle Burrell of the threat.

Bags that didn’t meet the criteria were labeled and then lined up outside of the building for the day.“They said just in case there’s bomb threats so they said just in case they had to check the bags and make sure that everybody’s safe,” freshman Adan Broderick told Burrell.

Parents said they got a robocall from the school’s principal alerting them to the threat.Father P.J. Green said he was anxious after dropping off his 14-year-old son at the school on Monday.