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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: King of the Street
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- BUSINESS
- King of the Street
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Sandy Weill's megadeal with American Express augurs a brokerage
- war
- </p>
- <p> Who says you can never go home again? Ever since Sanford
- Weill sold Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the brokerage firm that he
- created, to American Express in 1981, he has longed to regain
- control of the company. After several failed attempts, Weill
- finally hit pay dirt when Primerica Corp., where he serves as
- chairman, acquired financially ailing Shearson Lehman Bros. in a
- $1.2 billion deal that ranks as the largest in the history of the
- securities business.
- </p>
- <p> By combining Shearson with Primerica's Smith Barney, the
- acquisition will create a Wall Street powerhouse that poses a
- serious threat to industry leader Merrill Lynch. The deal will
- also reunite Weill with a company he patched together out of a
- string of troubled brokerages during the 1960s and '70s.
- American Express had been seeking to unload the money-losing
- brokerage. Wall Street hailed the merger as good for all three
- firms.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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