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...third quarter. Though official Government estimates on expansion for the period will not be out until this week, most economists have already scaled down their earlier growth forecasts from 4% to 3%, or less. All at once fear settled like a fall frost on Wall Street, chilling investor confidence and sending stock prices spiraling downward in the worst plunge of the year...
Died. Benjamin Graham, 82, dean of security analysts and an investor who became a millionaire; in Aix-en-Provence, France. Graham's 1934 book Security Analysis (coauthored with David L. Dodd) remains a business-school textbook; more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The Intelligent Investor, his layman's guide to Wall Street, stressed the importance of the net asset value of a corporation's stock...
Many Changes. The bill also takes aim at a longtime target of tax reformers: the rise in value of assets held until death. To illustrate, take the case of an investor who buys stock at $10 a share and dies, leaving it to his son when it is worth $50. Under present law, neither the investor nor his son ever pays tax on any part of the $40 capital gain. The bill would gradually phase in a tax on that appreciation. When its provisions take full effect-perhaps in 30 years -the entire increase would be taxed...
...biggest investor in long-form dynasty drama is NBC, with its Thursday evening Best Sellers series. Its opener, starring Henry Fonda, will be a nine-hour serialization of Taylor Caldwell's The Captains and the Kings, the saga of a Kennedy-esque Irish immigrant clan's rise to power. Other entries are based on Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle and Thornton Wilder's The Eighth...
Nonetheless, brokers do worry about Chemical's move. They see it as a direct assault on the Street's retail commission price structure, which was set up for the average investor. Big institutional investors-banks, life insurance companies, pension funds-have long received the benefits of negotiated commissions, and the SEC more than a year ago abolished what few vestiges there were of the old fixed-commission system. But the typical small investor, lacking the muscle of large institutions, received no such break on commissions and in many cases pays even more to buy or sell stock today...