Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David J. Morgan '94 and Jeffrey S. Mitchell '94 were also picked by the Toronto Blue Jays and the Montreal Expos, respectively, according to Harvard Director of Sports Information John P. Veneziano...
...Visitors to the Suffern office find plumbers, bartenders, retirees and out-of-work lawyers crammed elbow to elbow in nine rooms filled with clerks, computer screens and high hopes. The screens show the various "bid" and "asked" prices offered by dozens of marketmakers -- firms such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley that deal in specific stocks...
Houtkin hits the keyboard, and prices for the stock of Cisco Systems, a volatile computer company, pop up on the screen. Fortunately, I'm told to ignore everything except two columns I can barely read anyway. One lists the prices that 47 marketmakers (firms like Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter) are willing to pay for Cisco. The second shows what they're willing to sell...
While I'm busy gloating, Houtkin punches up Amgen, a volatile biotech stock that is suddenly on its way down. I decide to sell 10 shares short at 38 3/4; J.P. Morgan is on the other side of the trade. Now I have to buy the shares in order to deliver them to Morgan, hopefully at a lower price. But the downward wave I thought I was surfing on turns out to be little more than a splash in a puddle. Amgen edges up to 39 in most marketmakers' quotes! If it climbs higher, I'm really in trouble...
EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Carl Harmon, Sheila Charney, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...