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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE DNA FOR BEGINNERS would make the perfect gift for your favorite dilettante or high school science whix. The Gene Age is best suited for an investor in the fast-paced, high-flying biotechnology industry. Had it come out a couple of years earlier. The Gene Age might have staved off the stock market cruze during which speculators plunged millions of dollars into companies with no products and no foreseeable profits...
What should an AT&T investor do? Buy, sell or hold? Experienced Wall Streeters advise: do nothing immediately, just wait for the chaos to subside. Once it does, investors could begin trading out of one holding company and into another or concentrate their investment in the new AT&T. Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter and several other brokerages have set up mutual or trust funds made up of stocks from all the new companies. The accounts, called Humpty Dumptys, in effect put AT&T back together again for an investor...
...breakup of AT&T has so many possible ramifications that few people even pretend to understand it thoroughly. Wall Street firms have held dozens of investor seminars on the divestiture, all run by veteran staffers bristling with law degrees and M.B.A.s. But at one session last month, "I don't know" was a tellingly frequent response from, among others, panelist Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter. An expert on the telephone industry, Kahn presided over the deregulation of U.S. airlines in the late 1970s and is now a professor of political economy at Cornell...
...minded Marshall wanted a local group led by Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 47, to buy the paper. He promised staffers he would never sell it to Murdoch. But Hoge's final offer was only $63 million and did not include the syndicate. In addition, Frederick, a film investor with a penchant for racing cars, was arguing in favor of Murdoch, who offered a quick cash deal...
Street broker, Fraser draws his authority from the fortnightly Contrary Investor newsletter ($80 a year), which he publishes from his stone house overlooking Lake Champlain. In August 1981 he urged his 1,000 subscribers to buy Sears, whose stock had fallen to $16, from $62 nine years earlier. Most investors perceived the retailer to be in terrible shape, but Fraser believed its troubles would pass. Last week Sears shares closed...