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...second largest long-distance carrier and a company four times the size of WorldCom. The bid demolished British Telecommunication's $18.7 billion offer for MCI just as the two phone giants were preparing to seal their transatlantic deal. It also shattered BT's plan to make the MCI merger the focus of its global strategy, a consequence that didn't much concern Ebbers. "We can realize far greater savings and synergies than BT can," he said, and punctuated the analysis with the plainspoken observation that "they just don't live here...
Weill's coup not only creates a global financial supermarket, but it will also impel a consolidation in which Wall Street investment companies will either get big or get run over. The merger unites Salomon, a power in bonds and a player in investment banking, with the Travelers-owned Smith Barney brokerage, which is stronger in stocks. The Travelers umbrella also includes companies that sell life insurance, property and casualty insurance, annuities, mutual funds and credit cards. Travelers Group's stock market value of $55 billion will now dwarf such giants as Merrill Lynch ($24 billion) and the newly formed...
Weill naturally downplays any talk of culture wars or conflicts among his managers. And he says the risks inherent in Salomon's volatile trading operations (Salomon's traders reportedly blew $100 million recently betting the wrong way on the MCI-British Telecom merger) will look like "a little bit of a pimple" alongside the $30 billion in revenues that Travelers will have after the merger. That pimple could look even smaller if, as expected, Weill makes more acquisitions. Next up could be a commercial bank, which would add lending power to the Travelers portfolio. "I have never in my life...
Just when the British Telecom merger with MCI seemed like a done deal, up steps an American firm to throw a spanner in the works. WorldCom, the U.S. telecommunications upstart that bought CompuServe a couple of weeks ago and snapped up Brooks Fiber, a local telephone company Tuesday, decided Wednesday to have MCI for dessert. Money Daily reports that WorldCom will offer $30 billion in stock for the long-distance carrier, trumping BT's offer by about $12 billion. But it seems everyone was a winner as BT, MCI and WorldCom stock all soared on the London markets...
JOSHUA COOPER RAMO, who edits TIME DIGITAL, our bimonthly supplement on computer technology, wrote this week's cover story on America Online's merger with CompuServe. "People bash online services as a zero-billion- dollar business," says Ramo. "This proves that one of them can be a success and step out of the pack." Ramo, a senior editor, is stepping lively himself. Since he began editing Time Digital, it has grown from 42 to 80 pages. It now reaches 2.5 million readers and is available on newsstands. Last week it literally burst out of our regular magazine with a freestanding...