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...Friday, the day of the deal. But it was mere profit taking after a two-week run-up in which shares of Philip Morris, the No. 1 tobacco company, jumped 9%, reaching a new high on Thursday, while No. 2 RJR rose 14%. Tobacco stocks have sold at a discount, compared with other packaged-goods company shares, because of the legal uncertainties. Many analysts expect the stocks to keep on chugging once Wall Street can reliably calculate the settlement costs. "As uncertainty is removed, the stocks move up," says Roy Burry, tobacco analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. Investors may be willing...
...frozen beef patty in the past two years and profit margins are eroding. Some of the 2,750 franchisees are unhappy--some downright testy--because rapid store expansion has cannibalized sales and the company's advertising and promotion, although ubiquitous, have been ineffectual. Most recent case: a deep-discount program called Campaign 55 (the company was founded in 1955), which hasn't been a rousing success...
...University's endowment could buy more than 250 million Harvard sweatshirts--after the 10 percent discount for Harvard students--which is enough to emblazon Veritas across the chest of every man, woman and child in America...
...dozen lien records and four filings under the Uniform Commercial Code. (Unfortunately, there are no bankruptcies on file; these are usually good sources of home addresses and Social Security numbers.) To get more detail I had to pay: $3.48 for a single record or $15 for a multirecord discount...
Other companies are zeroing in on the rich business market. Nextel is wooing corporate customers by packaging radio, paging and telephone services into discount-priced bundles. Controlled by Craig McCaw, who sold his cellular business to AT&T in 1994 for $11.5 billion, Nextel aims to establish itself in regions covering 85% of the U.S. population...