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- A Wall Street fortress for most of the twentieth century, Salomon Brothers fell from grace when it found itself tangled in a chain of scandals in the early 1990s, which led to the firm's emergency takeover by Warren Buffett and eventual integration into Citigroup.
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A Wall Street fortress for most of the twentieth century, Salomon Brothers fell from grace when it found itself tangled in a chain of scandals in the early 1990s, which led to the firm's...
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In 1979, Salomon Brothers scored a major coup when IBM insisted that Morgan Stanley accept Salomon Brothers as co-manager on a $1-billion debt issue for a new generation of IBM computers. Morgan Stanley demanded sole management, but IBM affirmed Salomon Brothers’ role as co-manager. [15]
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Salomon Brothers was an American investment bank. It was founded in 1910 and was one of the largest investment banks on Wall Street, providing a range of financial services. It was best-known for its fixed-incometrading department. The company went through a series of acquisitions and mergers between 1981 and 1997. It ultimately merged with Citigro...
Salomon Brothers was established as an investment bank in 1910 by brothers Arthur, Herbert, and Percy Salomon. Originally a private company, it went public in the late 1970s before going through a series of acquisitionsand mergers. Salomon Brothers was first acquired by the Phibro Corporation in 1981, becoming known as Phibro-Salomon. In 1997, the ...
Warren Buffett—the Oracle of Omaha—invested in Salomon Brothers in the 1980s and had to personally take a position on the board to clear out people involved with a false Treasury bond bid scandal to keep the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) from taking legal action. The scandal involved a Salmon trader who was making false bids to try to buy...
Mar 23, 2012 · Last weekend, facing growing outrage and certain dismissal, Salomon Brothers’ three most senior executives, John Gutfreund, Thomas Strauss, and John Meriwether, resigned. They did not accept...
As Michael Lewis recounts in Liar’s Poker, his gripping account of working at trading firm Salomon Brothers (taken over by Milken in 1987) in the 1980s, Milken was out of place – ‘he lacked both tact and couth,’ and his ill-fitting wig ‘looked as if a small mammal had died on his head.’.
Aug 19, 1991 · In an extraordinary action, the Treasury Department yesterday suspended Salomon Brothers Inc., one of Wall Street's biggest trading and investment houses, from bidding in Treasury auctions,...
Sep 27, 2008 · By August 1991, Warren Buffett’s investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, had held a large stake in Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers for about four years – he had helped to rescue...
