Morgan Stanley
Background
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is an investment banking and global financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. It serves a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 33 countries around the world with 600 offices, with an approximate employee workforce of 45,000. The company reports US$749 billion as assets under its management.
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" The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. "
12 days ago from
Motley Fool
...offerings. Its market cap is nearly $10 billion. If it can maintain its current dividend, the yield is roughly 9%. Citigroup, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wachovia are joint book running managers for the offering. Enterprise Products has also granted...
20 hours ago from
24x7 Wall St.
Latest news - About Morgan Stanley
...and National City respectively, and became the 4th and 5th largest banks in the country. Earlier, in September of last year, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the other two major investment banks -- Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS) -- converted...
2 hours ago from
iStockAnalyst
...from Buy to Neutral. Valuation call, as the stock is up 28% since late October. Expect near-term comp sales to remain flat. Lazard (LAZ Quote - Cramer on LAZ - Stock Picks) downgraded at BofA/Merrill to Neutral. Estimates also cut, to reflect the collapse...
4 hours ago from
The Street
...of Tontine as if they were the best of the best. Global Alpha has been awfully quiet. Anyone know how they did in 2008? Not only that, but they're inviting people who don't even... More » Morgan Stanley is said to have just cut heads from... More »...
4 hours ago from
DealBreaker
... ACM) from Overweight to Equalweight. AECOM Technology Corporation provides professional technical and management support services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Receive full access to all new and archived articles, unlimited portfolio tra...
4 hours ago from
Street Insider
...exposures in the fourth quarter. Citigroup will be hurt the most, with $8.8 bn in losses, JPMorgan Chase next at $3.4 bn and Bank of America at $1.3 bn in losses. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have already posted fourth quarter writedowns in excess of $13...
5 hours ago from
FOX Business
...the year, you’d have thought me a madman. But it has. The two houses still standing, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS), are both now officially conventional banks, with lower leverage ratios and a changing business mix. In the New Year,...
8 hours ago from
iStockAnalyst
...early to buy any of them. Its top picks are Compass Group (UK:CPG: , , ) , Whitbread (UK:WTB: , , ) , Carnival (CCL: , , ) , Thomas Cook (UK:TCG: , , ) and Paddy Power (UK:PAP: , , ) . The broker said to avoid stocks with stretched balance sheets, weaker-than-expected...
9 hours ago from
MarketWatch
...28 years in December. The output of goods and services is expected to shrink 1.9 percent by the time 2009 ends, according to Morgan Stanley & Co., and in the 12 months before November, the U.S. lost more than 2 million jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor...
10 hours ago from
Daily News Record
...is expected today to name a chief performance officer with the task of finding government efficiencies. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office will also release its latest budget estimates, providing the first official predictions of the shortfalls tied...
10 hours ago from
FinFacts
...has drawn little interest among Korean firms as it competes with low-priced Chinese producers and bigger domestic brands Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and LG Electronics (066570.KS). "The talks were discontinued late last month," said the official at a...
11 hours ago from
Reuters
Spice - About Morgan Stanley and NYSE
" And most investors lose money on options. "
15 days ago from
The Money Times
" Big carries opportunities -- we have used that to our advantage. We will continue to grow faster than the market. "
23 days ago from
Motley Fool
" We are big, we are strong and we are trusted "
23 days ago from
Motley Fool
...$1.32 or 18.64% to $8.40 after Barclays analysts raised recommendation on the stock to overweight from equal weight. Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) rallied 81 cents or 3.45% to $24.31. Dow Chemicals (NYSE: DOW) jumped $1 or 6.64% it said that it may take legal...
21 hours ago from
iStockAnalyst
...estimate for three companies in different sectors. No one will say that we weren’t deep into the current crisis 90 days ago -- Lehman Brothers had already gone into bankruptcy. The changes are smaller, but they remain substantial. Note that all six companies...
23 hours ago from
Motley Fool
...With economic conditions as they are, companies are making moves they wouldn't have considered if the market were better, like MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) cutting hundreds of managers, Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) laying off thousands of workers, and even growth-market...
23 hours ago from
Motley Fool
Last Week - About Morgan Stanley
...is not helping things--especially during an economic downturn. This can only have a negative effect. Visitors living outside Chicago, and even local drivers, will re-think visiting the city or other neighborhoods, knowing it will possibly cost them so much...
7 days ago from
Huffington Post
...one seems to have liked that way SEC chief Christopher Cox handled his job during the financial crisis. Congress thought he should have done more to keep banks and investment house from using tremendous leverage to make bets on paper like mortgage-backed securities....
7 days ago from
24x7 Wall St.
...and levers of power. For example, when hedge fund Amaranth Advisors got into trouble on natural gas trades in 2006, JPMorgan Chase (JPM Quote - Cramer on JPM - Stock Picks), an important financial backer to the hedge fund, took over the trading positions and...
7 days ago from
The Street
...circles by purchasing stakes in stock exchanges. Those have turned out to be bad bets. The QIA owns 15% of the London Stock Exchange, and Dubai's fund has 20%. LSE shares have dropped nearly two-thirds since the funds bought in 15 months ago. At the same time,...
7 days ago from
Business Week
...and how modern finance as we knew it collapsed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the takeovers of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, and the transformation of the last two standing investment banks - Goldman Sachs and...
7 days ago from
Daily FX
...great financial booms in U.S. history. During twice-monthly conference calls that originated from the company's headquarters in Wilton, Conn., president Joseph Cassano would listen as marketing executive Alan Frost listed the latest swap transactions for associates...
7 days ago from
Michael Moore - This Just In
...people chanted, sang protest songs and marched with placards Wednesday outside the Fort Worth office of Saxon Home Mortgage in support of a man facing foreclosure despite his assertions that he was not in arrears and that Saxon had mislaid his property-tax...
7 days ago from
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
...risks. Its bearish case, which assumes that consumers save an extra 10% of the tax cut, sees a 2.9% contraction in GDP. Morgan Stanley economists Richard Berner and David Greenlaw write that a suspension of the payroll tax "would help to stimulate demand and...
7 days ago from
Investor's Business Daily
...as much as US$800 billion from their June 30 peak, starting 2009 with about US$1.1 trillion, according to estimates by Morgan Stanley. That's caused some managers to try to hold on to client capital. As of October, 18 percent of hedge-fund assets —managed...
7 days ago from
China Post
...Lynch acquisition, despite turning its back on Lehman Brothers, the government bailed out an insurance company -- AIG (NYSE: AIG). The Death of Wall Street Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley, the last of the independent Wall Street investment...
7 days ago from
Motley Fool
Last Month - About Morgan Stanley
...has received interest from the U.K.'s BG Group Plc, and two Canadian producers with operations in the North Sea. Talisman Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada, the Sunday Times reported. Norwegian Energy Co., which is the co-owner with Oilexco and two other companies...
30 days ago from
Financial Post
...with the firm for at least five years and produce at least $400,000 annually. Five nights a week, courtesy of CEO John Mack (he works hard for the money). Additionally, the firm's 8,500 brokers will be offered another form of liquidity to kick off 2009....
30 days ago from
DealBreaker
...who if he gets his wish may end up the only major investment banking chief to snag a bonus this year. Just ask Morgan Stanley's John Mack, who joins a growing list of CEOs who are forgoing their 2008 bonuses because of the atrocious performances of their respective...
30 days ago from
DealScape
...site, citing people familiar with the matter. Mack also passed on his bonus last year. Morgan Stanley's two co-presidents, James Gorman and Walid Chammah, will also forgo a bonus this year, as Morgan Stanley accepted $10 billion in federal money and will lay...
30 days ago from
MarketWatch
...government sale of Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit, and Reuters' merger with Thomson. Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack wrote in an internal memo: "Gavin was an extremely decent, universally liked, funny, selfless and deeply valued man. He was also...
30 days ago from
The Telegraph
...that it will introduce clawbacks to all employees’ bonuses. “We remain committed to paying our people competitively,” John J. Mack, Morgan Stanley’s chairman and chief executive, wrote in the memo. “But our entire bonus pool will be down dramatically this...
30 days ago from
The New York Times
...top execs at Morgan Stanley have also elected to not take bonuses this year. Gasparino also pointed out that this will be John Mack's second year in a row without a bonus, as he did not receive one last year. Morgan Stanley, through its subsidiaries and affiliates,...
30 days ago from
Street Insider
... MS shares have ridden the wave of buying pressure on Wall Street more than 3.6% higher today, with the stock closing above $16 per share for the first time since November 5. The equity still faces potential resistance at the 17 level, which acted as suppo...
30 days ago from
SchaeffersResearch.com: Daily Market Blog
... When a business borrows money so it can reinvest it in hopes of getting a higher return, it's called leverage. Using loaned money, the company can make larger investments, and, therefore, receive larger returns. At least, that's the theory. However, alo...
30 days ago from
FOX News
...the year-end payment, a person familiar with the matter said. In recent days, Mr. Mack, and the firm's two co-presidents, James Gorman and Walid Chammah, decided that taking a bonus this year would send the wrong message, especially since Morgan Stanley accepted...
30 days ago from
Wall Street Journal