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Stirling Cooke might be up for sale
April was yet another disastrous month for Stirling Cooke Brown Holdings as its share price fell by 60 per cent and KPMG Peat Marwick resigned as its auditor after just two years. The company also announced it planned to hire a financial adviser to "explore ways to boost shareholder value", a move which often signals that a company is considering putting itself up for sale.
PaineWebber fires broker, closes offshore brokerage accounts
PaineWebber this month fired long-serving broker Terry Cross and terminated its relationship with Bahamas-based financial and corporate services company International Trade & Investments Limited over fears of becoming implicated in a possible tax evasion scandal. PaineWebber took this aggressive action after being tipped off that Cross, who worked at its San Francisco office, had allegedly promoted tax evasion during a speech he gave at an offshore seminar held two months ago in Nassau by ITI.