Word: investors
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...real estate it expects to be stuck with as banks in the region go bust. The Bank of New England (assets: $23 billion) "already has one foot in the grave," says an analyst. Even the big Manhattan-based "money center" banks are suffering from plummeting earnings and falling investor confidence. Chase Manhattan's stock has plunged almost 60% in the past year, to 16 5/8. Citicorp is down about 40%, to 17 3/4. Even J.P. Morgan, widely considered among the best managed and best capitalized major banks, has suffered a stock-price decline...
...want to hedge against disaster, buy puts on stocks you think have further to drop, or on market indexes as a whole (your broker will be falling all over himself to explain this to you). Don't short stocks. Unless you're a very seasoned investor, it's just too risky (and it means you have to pay dividends, on top of commissions, not earn them). Buy puts only on days when the crisis seems to be over and the market has boomed -- and assume that whatever you do spend on puts is money you'll never see again. Because...
According to an old fable, a bankrupt depression-era investor, asked how he lost his fortune, responded, "Gradually, and then suddenly." This accurately describes the evolution of Gilliam's professional and personal life; as we are introduced to him in the beginning of the film, he is a disaster waiting to happen. Doomed, if you will, from the start...
...endowment is also much more complex than in its early days. During the past few years, HMC has become heavily involved in risky, high-yield investments including real estate speculation and LBOs, in which an investor borrows heavily to take over a publically traded firm...
...Topic A as industry executives gather in Atlanta this week for their annual convention. Though the severity of Washington's legislation is still an open question, the tide may be turning for one of the hot businesses of the late 1980s. Cable companies are already suffering from investor wariness. The largest U.S. cable operator, Denver- based Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), which draws 78% of its revenues from cable, has seen its stock price fall 29% since early October, to 14 3/4. Time Warner, which derives 25% of its revenues from cable programming and operations, has endured a share-price decline...