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<text id=93TT1226>
<title>
Mar. 22, 1993: King of the Street
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 25
BUSINESS
King of the Street
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<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.
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</article>
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