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...borrowing costs of those companies will be declining, and that will help profits. Next they moved to housing-related stocks that would benefit if the lower interest rates encourage a pickup in homebuilding. Their favorites: Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Anticipating that consumer spending would increase, Rolland bought Sears, Roebuck and Co., MCA, Procter & Gamble and two drug companies, Syntex and American Home Products. Smaller, profitable airlines, which would benefit as travel increased in a healthier economy, also looked good, so Chemical bought US Air and PSA. One industry group that he totally avoided was energy stocks. Says Rolland...
American bankers, already worried about steep interest rates and shaky loans, had yet another reason to feel edgy last week. Sears, Roebuck and Co., the largest U.S. retailer, launched a new offensive in its campaign to become a major force in the financial services business. In eight stores, from Atlanta to Los Angeles, the company opened the first branches of its Sears Financial Network, a kind of supermarket where shoppers can buy stocks, bonds, insurance and houses, or even open up Individual Retirement Accounts...
...moment, interactive programs are being used or developed at Atari (the disc acts as an indefatigable salesman in the showroom); IBM; Sears, Roebuck (Looking for a gingham dress? You can find it on their videodisc catalogue); General Motors; the Smithsonian Institution; Walt Disney Productions; Xerox; and the National Gallery of Art (recording 16,000 works of art for scholarly delectation). As a teaching tool for schools, industry and museums, the interactive videodisc has an assured place...
Sorting out the potential winners from the probable losers will not be easy. In the heated struggle for customers, banks, savings and loans and stockbrokers are jousting with new competitors, such as money-market funds and diversified financial-services companies like Sears, Roebuck and American Express. The result has been a flood of novel investment and savings devices. Moreover, there has grown up a cacophony of conflicting claims that is bewildering investors. Even many money advisers in banks, brokerage houses and other financial institutions are having a difficult time keeping up with the myriad of different investment possibilities that have...
...accounts are only part of the financial revolution that has been bringing widely different money services under one roof. Last week Sears, Roebuck and Co., the largest American retailer, announced that it will open financial-service centers in eight cities in July. The company now owns Dean Witter Reynolds securities and Coldwell Banker real estate. Last year American Express Co. bought Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second largest securities firm, and the Prudential Insurance Co. acquired the Bache Group, the sixth biggest brokerage house. Banks will soon be in the thick of the financial fight...