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...biggest celebrations after earnings reports were announced occurred on Wall Street. The bull market has pushed up trading volume and the level of broker commissions. Paine Webber's earnings rose 525%, to $23 million; E.F. Hutton's increased more than twelvefold; First Boston's jumped 81%. After more than two years of mostly terrible corporate profits, last week's earnings results signaled that the worst of the recession is over...
...Guide (circ. 17 million). TV Guide publishes 107 regional editions; in the past year it has increased its cable coverage to 40% of the listings space. But it is not system-specific. Publishing industry analysts reason that there is room for both weeklies. Said J. Kendrick Noble of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "The new magazine could become the principal TV directory for upscale families who have cable...
...money machine. The company has not put one penny into the Japanese project, yet for the next 45 years it will receive 10% of the receipts for admission tickets and rides plus 5% of sales of everything else. That, says Wall Street Disney Watcher Lee Isgur of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins, might add $25 million to $40 million to Disney's operating profits next year. The income should fatten Disney profits from its U.S. theme parks, adventure and family movies (TRON, Tex) and other activities, which ran to some $200 million last year...
...Gurewitz, 54, a Brooklyn cab driver: "I saw him on TV and I like the guy. He's turning around a company that was down the drain. He has guts." Nor has lacocca's commercial charisma escaped notice by Wall Street's savviest auto analyst, Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins. Says she: "I wouldn't doubt that people have bought Chrysler cars just because they wanted Lee lacocca to make...
...annual budgets through 1986. A large chunk is in hand in lacocca's $900 million cash kitty. And he is counting on generating the rest from profits and cash flow over the next four years. It is not a scenario that can withstand unpleasant surprises. Says Alan Webber, a former transportation-department aide who is now a senior research associate at Harvard: "One false step and they are off the tightrope...