Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsible for the Oct. 19 crash, the trading centers have become locked in a multibillion-dollar struggle for turf and influence that is frightening away investors and harming business for both. "I have nothing nice to say about Chicago. They've ruined everything," declares Dudley Eppel, 57, a stock trader for Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities. Says Richard Dennis, a hyper-wealthy futures trader in Chicago: "The gulf between us is large, and the stakes are even larger...
...wasting my time? Why don't you mind your own business. It's a nice day--run along and play the stock market or something. We've all got things to do, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit around and listen to some wise...
...pure form, index arbitrage involves the simultaneous purchase of stock index futures contracts and the sale of the stocks that make up the index, or vice versa, to make a profit on the temporary "spread" or price difference between the two. Supporters of this classic kind of arbitrage say it provides a useful and necessary link to equalize prices between the stock markets in New York City and the futures exchanges in Chicago. But recently some Wall Street firms have taken to delaying one or the other leg of the two- part transaction, depending on which way the market...
What is going on here? By all accounts, the 5 1/2-year-old economic expansion should be fizzling out. Already ancient by historical standards, the upswing appeared to have suffered a devastating blow when the stock market crashed last October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off enough steam to inspire fears that it may actually be overheating. Forget about a recession, many economists counsel, and start worrying about inflation. Once a faint and far-off danger, rising prices may now pose the gravest threat to economic stability...
...expanding too fast into areas beyond its ken, including feature films (among its flops: Made in Heaven and American Anthem). Last week the company agreed to a friendly acquisition by Warner Communications, whose TV studio already produces such hits as Night Court and Growing Pains, for $630 million in stock and the assumption of $550 million of Lorimar's debt. But late in the week came word of a potential rival bid. Marvin Davis, the Denver oilman who once owned 20th Century Fox, is considering making an offer of about $690 million for Lorimar. A Dallas-style brawl may ensue...