The firm also increased its newspaper and publishing holdings during the middle-1970s.
The firm can then raise more resources per share issued and increase their investments.
While the firm never before increased the requirements for so many stocks, the action was not unprecedented.
The firm has also been steadily increasing its share of the mobile phone market.
By 2009, the firm increased their revenue to $140 million.
The firm also increased its dividend 40 percent, to 35 cents a common share.
The results are, however, strong enough to prompt some large firms to increase the pay for their associates.
At the same time, major firms have not increased their pro bono work.
The firm also opened more than 20,000 new accounts each month and increased its number of brokers by 230.
The firm has now increased the scale of the cutbacks, with the 3,000 new job losses to be in place by 2006.