Encyclopedia Dubuque
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SHEARSON AMERICAN EXPRESS
SHEARSON AMERICAN EXPRESS. During the 1980s American Express began an effort to become a financial services supercompany. In mid-1981 it purchased Sanford I. Weill 's Shearson Loeb Rhoades, the second largest securities firm in the United States to form Shearson/American Express. Responding to the news that American Express had agreed to exchange its shares for Shearson's, Shearson stock jumped $6.38 a share, to $48.63, with 500,000 shares changing hands.
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New York Times, April 22, 1981.
The 1983 through 1985 Dubuque City Directory listed 190 DUBUQUE BUILDING.