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...spaceship speed. Until last year Atari and Mattel were the major competitors. Between 1979 and 1982 their profits surged from less than $80 million to $471 million, and the potential seemed unlimited. But their triumphs attracted a fleet of market invaders, including Coleco, Imagic, CBS, 20th Century-Fox, Parker Bros. Milton Bradley and Avalon Hill. By the end of last year, at least 30 firms were in the battle...
...Belgium. His father David worked in a Manhattan burlap-bag factory to put Rich through the private Rhodes School, where he earned a B-minus average and presided over the French club. An indifferent student at New York University, Rich quit to pursue commodities trading for the Philipp Bros. firm...
Chrysler then began playing a subtle cat-and-mouse game. Publicly, the automaker feigned a lack of interest, saying it might not even make a bid. But behind the scenes, the company was working with Investment Banker David Schulte, a Salomon Bros, vice president, on a deal. Schulte helped craft a bid by using a formula that subtracts the price of the warrants ($13) from the stock's actual price on the day of the bidding ($29.50). Using that amount ($16.50) as the base price, Schulte had to figure out how much of a premium Chrysler would have...
...purchaser would have a profit of $2,500 ($500 times 5). If the index dropped to 155, he would lose $2,500. Trading in the contracts can therefore be expensive and risky. "These instruments are not for the small investor," says Louis Margolis, vice president of the Salomon Bros, investment banking firm...
...staff began having second thoughts in the late 1970s about the earlier decision. By removing the networks as sources of financing for new TV shows, the commission in effect turned production almost totally over to the major studios like Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and Twentieth Century-Fox, and to the big independents like MTM, Lorimar and Spelling, who are able to afford the megabucks necessary to launch a new program. That, reasoned the staff in a 1980 report, simply concentrated the program supply power in fewer hands instead of dispersing...