Word: stocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...domestic assets. In contrast, the five largest Canadian banks controlled 58.1 percent of Canadian domestic assets. Furthermore, Canada's banking is also less regulated: many of the regulatory constraints being challenged by recent U.S. mergers were removed almost ten years ago in Canada--everything from permitting banks to enter stock brokering to selling insurance...
...empire or another fortune for its chief architect, Sanford I. Weill, the ever hustling CEO of Travelers. It will, of course, do those things. Since last Monday's announcement, Travelers shares have jumped nearly 10%, giving Weill incremental wealth of $123 million. That gets him to $1 billion--before stock options, where CEOs make the big dough...
...more pairs of financial-services companies agreed to marry. Credit-card and home-equity lender Household International will pay $7.7 billion for Beneficial Corp., which is in the same businesses; and insurer Conseco Inc. agreed to pay $6.4 billion for subprime, mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial. Meanwhile, the stock price soared for just about every mutual-fund company, bank or brokerage considered likely to find a partner...
...will, of course, result in more lost jobs as well as other dislocations and inconveniences for employees. But one clear benefit of the merger trend is that it goes hand-in-hand with companies' unrelenting focus on keeping costs and prices down. From computers to cars to commissions on stock trades to the rate on your mortgage, the 1990s have been a buyer's market. In no small part that disinflationary environment derives from the robust activity of dealmakers like Weill in mixing and matching to get the most out of every asset...
...about itself. Its personalization ploy is its biggest step yet in the race to catch up to its first-place rival. Yahoo and Excite have each offered a modest form of personalization for two years. Yahoo calls its service My Yahoo; Excite's is My Excite. Each loads stock quotes, news flashes and various other tidbits, along with the inevitable blinking ads, onto one customizable page. Starting this week, though, Excite has made personalization the centerpiece of its site. It's a gamble, but one grounded in experience. "People who personalize," says Kraus, "return five times more often than people...