How First National Passed Republic
The biggest Texas banks are up to their same old game—getting bigger.
Reporting and commentary on Texas businesses and the trends and innovation happening in our state
The biggest Texas banks are up to their same old game—getting bigger.
Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.
Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?
In the past people have made a pretty penny from initial offerings. No more.
Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.
The energy crisis has caused a crisis of nerves for the Chicken Littles of Wall Street.
IBM and friends could soon be steping down from their pedestals.
The Apparel Mart in Dallas clothes Middle America. Their merchandise may not win many fashion awards, but it sells, and sells, and sells.
When inflation hits the international scene the gnomes of Zurich and the goldbugs start racing for the ingots. But how smart an investment is gold these days?
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
How to keep your options, stock that is, open during Phase IV.
Institutions give the little guy the squeeze.
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
How to invest when the market gets wild.
Take 3 million acres, add politicians, lumber companies and Time, Inc., and what have you got? A very small park, or no park at all.
Condominiums are springing up all over Texas. It’s a good concept, but you need to know what you're doing.
A conversation about closed-end funds with a man who should know.
We take a look inside and outside a major investment land company.
Look out, offshore operators, they're headed your way!
THEY DID IT TO ME again.Yesterday I bought my number one customer 500 shares of Continental Airlines at 231/4. The Dow-Jones was crossing 1,000, the airlines were strong and it looked like a good trade. Today the New York Stock Exchange delayed the opening of Continental Airlines due to an