Shearson Loeb Rhoades

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Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.

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Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf brokerage firm
financial services company
investment banking firm
acquiredBy American Express
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dateAcquired 1981
dateFormed 1979
fate acquired and absorbed through mergers
formedByMergerOf Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shearson Hayden Stone
hadReputationFor aggressive expansion through mergers and acquisitions
large retail brokerage network
headquartersLocation New York City
industry brokerage
financial services
investment banking
locatedOn Wall Street
majorBusiness investment banking
retail brokerage
securities trading
notableFor being one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses
offeredService bond trading
financial advisory
stock brokerage
underwriting
operatedIn 20th century
operatedInMarket U.S. securities markets
parentCompanyAfterAcquisition American Express
partOf Wall Street brokerage industry
predecessor Loeb Rhoades
Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shearson Hayden Stone
regionServed United States of America
surface form: United States

international clients
servedClientType individual investors
institutional investors
status defunct
successor Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shearson Lehman Brothers

Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
surface form: Shearson/American Express

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Description of subject: Shearson Loeb Rhoades was a major American investment banking and brokerage firm that became one of Wall Street’s largest retail brokerage houses before being acquired and absorbed through a series of financial industry mergers.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sanford I. Weill employer Shearson Loeb Rhoades
Sanford I. Weill founded Shearson Loeb Rhoades
this entity surface form: Shearson Hammill & Co.
RJR Nabisco competitorBidder Shearson Loeb Rhoades
this entity surface form: Shearson Lehman Hutton
Shearson Loeb Rhoades predecessor Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shearson Hayden Stone
Shearson Loeb Rhoades formedByMergerOf Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shearson Hayden Stone
Shearson Loeb Rhoades successor Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shearson/American Express
Shearson Loeb Rhoades successor Shearson Loeb Rhoades self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Shearson Lehman Brothers