As a small measure of justice, investors have won virtually all of the arbitration cases filed against UBS and have recovered most of their Lehman Structured Product Note losses.

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Since the first introduction of the GALAXY Note category, Samsung has continued to enhance and expand the GALAXY Note product experiences.

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In the chart (see above) we display the return profile for a product like the Merrill note: a three-times return in the 0%-to-6% range, a flat 18% return if the market does better than 6% and a full participation in losses if the market goes down.

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