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...have a brokerage account at either Paine Webber or Kidder Peabody, you may want to get ready for some changes. Paine Webber announced it will buy Kidder Peabody from General Electric for $670 million. The move will make Paine Webber the fourth largest brokerage firm in America, after Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney and Dean Witter. On the bright side, the move should strengthen the firm's already considerable research and investment resources. On the down side, though, some analysts speculate that as many as half of Kidder's 5,000 employees may be laid off eventually...
...into the pro game, where he can become just another face in the big man's crowd Haven't heard as much from Chris Webber, the Golden State Warrior, as from Webber, the Fab Five-All World-PTP'er from Steve Fisher's Wolverines? Proof of God's merciful existence, methinks...
...Wall Street and the quants are stuck with each other. Stanley Diller, 58, an early quant who is managing director of fixed-income research at Paine Webber, left a job as an economics professor at Columbia in the mid-'70s to join Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s equity-research department. In those days, he says, "research was largely an image builder. It was something that brought in the customers." Now quantitative research "is the whole deal." If you don't have it, says Diller, you can't produce the new financial instruments, " 'cause you get crushed trying to hedge them." Meaning...
Forget Boston and New Haven. Broadway's favorite tryout town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross...
...advisers believe that shareholders will not only appreciate the larger cash component of their offering but will also be swayed by future profit possibilities. Some analysts maintain that Redstone's combination will indeed offer far more synergy than QVC and Paramount. Says Chris Dixon, an analyst at Paine Webber: "It's hard to imagine what business opportunities exist between QVC and Paramount that can match Viacom, Blockbuster and Paramount...