Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martin Feldman, tobacco analyst at Smith Barney, estimates that an additional tax today of 50[cents] a pack would curb cigarette sales by 8%. That would be O.K. with investors, who would gladly accept a smaller revenue stream so long as profits were protected against lawsuits. But any big increase above that starts to make the industry's economics go awry, including its 30% operating margins. I have no idea where the breaking point is but there surely is one. To me, $300 billion is a lot of money, no matter who's paying. If Big Tobacco can afford...
...have these flashes of letters which, I suppose, are better than nothing--or would be better if people actually knew what they meant. The only one I've figured out is that TV-G is for "Barney" and "Sesame Street." However, for the real problems, the shows which start out "Sesame Street" and end up Die Hard, the ratings are more difficult to understand...
...market tanked, pronto. Greenspan doesn't control the markets, for sure. But his is the hand closest to the interest-rate lever, which gives him an awful lot of influence. "He took the gun out and laid it on the table," says John Manley, an analyst at Smith Barney. "He must think we're thick as bricks...
...worst is over, you think? That's way too optimistic for me. Manley studied the past five bear markets, defined as a drop of at least 20% in the Standard & Poor's 500. In each case, the day the S&P started downward, the average stock (Smith Barney monitors 4,500 of them) had already fallen 19%. About like today. Look at popular stock funds like PBHG Growth and Twentieth Century Vista, down nearly 20% in the first quarter. When the guy buying stocks on his credit card gets this news, he'll start selling...
...growing company called HFS that owns a collection of brands from Howard Johnson to Century 21 to Avis that have made it the world's largest and most aggressive franchiser. "You'd have a lot of difficulty finding another company this size that is growing this fast," says Smith Barney analyst Michael Rietbrock. How fast? In 1995 HFS had sales of $413 million. This year the company will clock in around $1.8 billion...