Word: investments
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...Administration's reluctance to offer companies protection against takeovers may be tested in the new Democrat-controlled Congress. A number of suggestions for legislative reform are already beginning to percolate. Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the New York City investment-banking firm of Lazard Freres and a longtime critic of the stock market's speculative excesses, has proposed a sharp limit on the right of Government-insured pension funds, thrift institutions and trusts to invest in junk bonds. He suggests that takeover bids that are conditional on anticipated junk-bond financing be forbidden as an unfair manipulation of public markets...
...consumer price increases, and imposed a tax on coffee, the country's main export, to pay for the war. With an average per capita income of $535, El Salvador now faces as much as 50% unemployment, up to 40% inflation and a flight of capital as wary businessmen invest overseas. To make matters worse, half a million people have been forced from their homes by the war. The earthquake, which killed as many as 1,500 people, left more than 100,000 homeless and damaged 70% of all government buildings in the capital, slowing official business. Says Communications Minister Julio...
...wake of the impressive successes that Canada's richest families have scored in the U.S., growing numbers of smaller investors are expected to look southward as well. Last week the U.S. Government encouraged that trend by sponsoring three "Invest in the U.S.A." seminars in Canada, at which lawyers and accountants dispensed tips on how to get started in business in the U.S. Twenty-five states participated, hoping to lure Canadian investment. In a new version of the old wintertime travel advertisements for Florida aimed at shivering Northerners, the U.S. is telling Canada, "Come on down!" More and more Canadians...
...Brook, Ill. Blankemeier moved 70% of his portfolio into mutual stock funds after taking a mild beating on several of his own stock picks. Says he: "Half the time, I'd do O.K., and half the time I'd blow it. I'd rather have someone invest for me who has the time and the expertise...
...preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been a normal year, they probably would not have been around to lose in 1980 and invest that election with its seeming significance. As for what defeated them in 1980, given their precarious positions, everything was important no matter how small--Reagan coattails, the efforts of the NCPAC and a conservative resurgence on the one hand, or candidate personalities and local issues on the other...