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...going to be a very big race for us," Morgan said. "Penn especially will be contending this year...
...surprising that many of the new deals have an American feel: Europe's latest merger boom is being shaped by armies of pinstriped investment bankers jetting in from Wall Street. In fact, two banks based in New York City, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, overtook their European rivals for the first time in 1998 and became the top two advisers for takeovers in Europe in terms of the value of deals they helped bring about, according to Securities Data/Thomson Financial. "I believe there's going to be a lot more hostile activity," predicts Wilder Fulford, a managing director for mergers...
...line for the takeover fever are automobiles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Who benefits most from this? One sector that surely is not suffering is the overseas branches of American investment banks, which have vaulted ahead of their European financial rivals in advising European companies on mergers and acquisitions. In 1998 Morgan Stanley ranked first as the leading financial adviser of completed transactions in Europe, followed by Goldman Sachs. Warburg Dillon Read, an adviser based in Britain, had held the top spot for the two previous years...
...thought. Online firms like Eoffering and Hambrecht & Co., which marked up its first IPO last week, are proving it by going straight to retail and garnering higher prices for their wares. That and the fact that some Internet companies have begun to make real money have prompted firms like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to begin raising initial prices on their deals as well. In the first quarter, 24 of 25 Internet IPOs were priced above the initial target...
John Pierpont Morgan is usually "depicted...as a ruthless predator who robbed America's farmers and workers to line his own pockets," writes Jean Strouse. But halfway through her first draft of Morgan: American Financier (Random House; 796 pages; $34.95), she realized that the picture she was getting from plowing through a mass of Morgan documents, many of which no previous biographer had seen, was far more complex. Starting over, she has produced a more balanced and crisply written--though at times unnecessarily detailed--portrait than her subject could ever have drawn. History, Strouse observes, is written by "the articulate...