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Robert Mondavi Winery, based in Oakville, Calif., is the first U.S. winemaker to offer such contracts on a nationwide basis. An investor who buys a $240 contract on a case of 1985 or 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is betting that the wines will increase in value by 1989. Because the contracts will bring in cash two years before the wines are usually sold, about 30 California vintners, including such names as Iron Horse and Diamond Creek, are following Mondavi's lead...
...would give a strong pep talk about the needs of the contras and then leave it to private fund raisers like Carl Channell to ask directly for donations. Republican Senator Warren Rudman described it as a "one-two punch." According to William O'Boyle, a New York City oil investor who testified last week, he was told by North that as a Government employee he could not directly ask for donations. But Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewing- company executive, testified that in January 1986 North did personally ask him for $65,000 to buy a plane for the contras...
...revenues: $246 million) based in Elkhart, Ind. In March 1986, Dynamics tendered an offer for 1 million CTS shares, which would have given it a controlling interest in the firm. CTS then invoked a state law governing so-called control shares, defined as the number of shares an investor must purchase to gain control of a target company. Under the Indiana statute, the voting power of such shares must be ratified by "disinterested" owners of stock -- shareholders other than management or the investor in question. The law gives the company up to 50 days to call a shareholders' meeting...
...Glass- Steagall Act, as old- fashioned bank lending loses out to Wall Street' s creative financial techniques. In the balance may be the fate of the $2.7 trillion banking industry. -- The U. S. and Japan scramble to defuse trade tensions. -- Meet George Soros, Wall Street' s most successful investor...
...incredible bull market in stocks has produced billions in profits for investors over the past 4 1/2 years -- and millions in losses for those caught in the market's occasional steep downswings. That seesawing continued last week as the Dow Jones index of 30 industrial stocks ended the week at 2235.37, after skyrocketing by 66.47 points one day and dropping by 51.13 the next. Amid the ups and downs, no investor has done better than George Soros, 56. During the past two years alone, the soft-spoken, Hungarian-born manager of a fund known as Quantum has amassed a staggering...