blue-chip investment

Greece may not be a blue-chip investment financially, but it remains reliable in other ways.

Sometimes bad brokers will lull your suspicions by suggesting a blue-chip investment first.

And the only times we've lost our ante was on conservative, blue-chip investments."

Goldman said substantially all of its 13,000 employees will get a stake in the blue-chip investment bank when it sells shares this spring.

A blue-chip investment, that was it.

Both Merrill and Morgan Stanley have blue-chip investment banking operations along with their brokerage business.

Latin American debt bonds are not blue-chip investments by any means, and they are hard enough to sell when circumstances are perfect, especially to Americans.

The Islanders and the Ottawa Senators took steps yesterday to keep a pair of blue-chip investments liquid.

That leaves him with just 15 percent of his portfolio in the Fidelity Fund, his sole United States blue-chip investment.

Blue-chip investment houses hold hundreds of millions of dollars in shares which are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Horses are a staple in rural Kyrgyzstan - part sport utility vehicle, part blue-chip investment, part quadruped restaurant.

Mr. Sullivan considers Greenwich real estate a blue-chip investment and Cos Cob a bonus in ambience.

Nonetheless, Mr. Jett was hired after graduation as a junior trader in mortgage-backed securities by Morgan Stanley, the blue-chip investment house.

When 10-year-old Anna Kournikova looks in the mirror at her brand-new Florida condo, she doesn't see a blue-chip investment staring her in the face, but everyone else does.

But mostly, in business meetings in New York, Washington and Seattle, Mr. Yeltsin hopes to convince American executives that Russia is a blue-chip investment.

The remaining chunk of British Land's existing portfolio - including all its blue-chip investments such as Plantation House in the City of London - will be sold off.

Goldman, a blue-chip investment bank, plans to list its shares next Tuesday, formally ending its 130-year history as a private partnership and becoming the last major Wall Street firm to go public.

Beginning with ads this week in print outlets worldwide, Goldman intends to define itself as the blue-chip investment bank that listens - and never gives the same advice twice to its corporate clients.

A BLUE-CHIP investment for generations, real estate in high-income areas of the North Shore is experiencing a boomlet that is helping make six-figure salaries more common for top realty agents.

But they said many others would pay the higher commissions because Morgan Stanley will now offer them an enriched selection of its stock research and more access to initial public offerings of issues underwritten by its blue-chip investment bank.

Brokers like Mario de Almeida, who is with a company called Camara de Valores de Telefones, or Telephone Stock Exchange, in Sao Paulo, believe a phone line is a blue-chip investment.

"Given the attractiveness of current Treasury yields, when compared with other blue-chip investments, investors also bought both short and long notes," Mr. Sullivan added, "and this helped bolster their prices and cut their yields later in the session."

--and first editions that had once been worth a couple of hundred dollars each on the collectors' market had begun selling, by spring, for five times that price, they would probably continue to appreciate faster than blue-chip investments in the years to come.

Antilla could have spent those pages on a sociology lesson instead: the financial industry is a vast and multilayered kingdom, and she never considers how the atmosphere of, say, a blue-chip investment bank might (or might not) differ from that of a trading-room floor.

The prices for their work took a dive, and they became a symbol of everything unsavory about the 80's: the hype, the fickle collectors, the cocaine, the notion of art as a blue-chip investment - in other words, everything short of Nancy Reagan's astrologer and the Iran-Contra affair.