Nicholas J. Colas

Nicholas Colas is a managing director and chief market strategist at a leading global brokerage and trading-related services firm. He is responsible for analyzing trends in the economy and financial markets. A seasoned Wall Street analyst and portfolio manager, he provides his clients with in-depth market analysis and commentary through his daily Morning Market's Briefing.

Mr. Colas previously worked at Rochdale Securities, LLC, a provider of brokerage and independent research services, where he built the equity research team and oversaw development of a proprietary valuation model. Prior to his tenure at Rochdale, Mr. Colas served as a portfolio manager at SAC Capital and Silver Capital Management.

Earlier in his career, he was a senior equity analyst in the auto and auto parts sector of Credit Suisse First Boston. He was also the lead analyst on a number of large investment banking transactions.

Mr. Colas was ranked as first or second in the Wall Street Journal survey of analysts covering the auto sector from 1997 when the polls started there, until 1999 when he left the sell side. He was also consistently ranked in the top five in the Institutional Investor survey.

Mr. Colas holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Near Eastern Archaeology from Haverford College.