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Date: 18 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The American Express Company may be trying to sell shares of its Shearson Lehman Brothers securities unit again. Shearson officials drew up a plan for American Express to shed a majority interest in the nation's No. 2 brokerage firm in a public stock sale, The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. The plan may be presented to American Express's board next month.
Date: 18 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The State Street Boston Corporation said today that its board had appointed George J. Fesus to succeed David A. Spina as chief financial officer and treasurer and that Marshall N. Carter, president and chief executive, would succeed William S. Edgerly as chairman. Both appointments take effect Jan. 1.
Date: 17 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
R. H. Macy & Company named Claudia Wong head of its Far East operations yesterday. She will succeed Mitchell Finkelstein, who left the company last month to form a retail company with his father and former Macy chairman, Edward Finkelstein.
Date: 17 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reebok International Ltd. said yesterday that it planned to take an after-tax charge of about $135 million in the fourth quarter to revamp its operations. The four-part program includes selling the company's Boston Whaler and Ellesse U.S.A. divisions. Reebok will also take a charge to write down the value of its Avia footwear subsidiary, which it purchased in April 1987 for about $180 million.
Date: 17 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said yesterday that it was investing $222 million for a 30 percent stake in a $740 million trans-Atlantic fiber-optic network to transmit voice, data and video signals between the United States, France and Britain.
Date: 17 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Alliant Computer Systems Corporation said Craig J. Mundie, one of the company's three founders, had resigned as president and chief executive, effective immediately. Mr. Mundie had accepted the position of general manager, advanced consumer technologies, at the Microsoft Corporation, Alliant said. He will stay on Alliant's four-member board to help oversee the liquidation of the 10-year-old company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last May. The company named Michael J. Boudreau, 39, as president, treasurer, and secretary. Mr. Boudreau had been corporate controller; that post will not be filled.
Date: 17 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Brazilian debt securities plunged for a second consecutive session yesterday after the country's Economy Minister, Gustavo Krause, resigned in a policy dispute with acting President Itamar Franco. "The market mood is very pessimistic. People were not in a buying mood anywhere," Jeremy Smith, a trader at Morgan Grenfell, said.
Date: 18 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wheat futures slipped to a six-week low yesterday as worries increased about Russia's inability to make payments on United States loans, analysts said. Russia, which has been suspended from United States credit programs since Nov. 30, accounted for about 11 percent of all United States wheat exports, according to Allendale Inc., a brokerage firm in Crystal Lake, Ill. The Agriculture Department continues to characterize Russia's situation as temporary.
Date: 18 December 1992
ENTERGY INC. moved closer to acquiring Gulf States Utilities Co., as the companies' holders cleared the deal. CENTEL CORP. said its holders cleared its purchase by Sprint Corp.
Date: 17 December 1992
CLOROX CO., Oakland, Calif., said it had purchased the household cleaning products business of Dow Brands Inc. in Argentina. The purchase price was not disclosed. EKCO GROUP INC., Nashua, N.H., has signed a letter of intent to acquire Kellogg Brush Manufacturing Co., Easthampton, Mass. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Wright-Bernet, Inc. and Cleaning Specialty Co., for $33.9 million.