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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
PermalinkTo save a permanent link to this news, right-click the dateline (Ctl-click on a Mac) to copy the link.Merrill Lynch Again Taps Pitney Bowes for Mail, Print and Document Management Services STAMFORD, Conn.--()--Pitney Bowes Management Services, Inc. (PBMS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) announced today that it has been retained by Merrill Lynch & Co.,...
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obviously Merrill forgot to speak with the all-knowing Larry Kudlow of CNBC who sees bright skies and happy days for all. Third term, anyone ? "I still maintain the business cycle is bigger than the government," Merrill's North American economist David Rosenberg said at a client conference in Singapore. He said the world's largest economy was already in recession as consumer spending and confidence...
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Zeppelin commanders who run the research operations at Merrill Lynch (MER) have told their analysts that 20% of the stocks which the cover must be rated as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Merrill Lynch & Co. is going to start grading stocks on a curve. The firm, which runs the largest U.S. force of stock brokers, will adopt a new system of rating stocks, combining views of whether stocks will rise or fall outright with their expected performance relative to other similar companies. The move is the latest tweak to stock-rating systems on Wall Street, which continues to grope for...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Merrill Lynch is changing how it rates stocks, combining opinions of whether a given stock will rise or fall in absolute terms with its expected performance relative to similar companies.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merrill Lynch Global Research announced today a new system of equity ratings, which is designed to provide clients with enhanced transparency into analysts
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street investment bank, is to demand that its army of equity analysts identify far more companies whose shares they believe will fall over a 12-month period.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Merrill Lynch deal is now a candidate for the title of the worst mortgage securitization ever.
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Stock Market Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the slideshow, “Highest Paid CEOs,” which big boss has the No. 1 paycheck? John Thain of Merrill Lynch (ML) Disclosure: At time of publication, William Trent has no financial position in the companies mentioned in this article.
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Property Highlights of Singapore (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source : The Business Times, May 15, 2008 He expects house prices to fall another 15-20% over the next 20 months THE worst is far from over for the US economy, which is facing its worst consumer-led recession in more than three decades, the top economist for North America at Merrill Lynch said yesterday. Mr Rosenberg: Recession is a reality and no longer a forecast Despite aggressive efforts...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even in bad times, Wall Street's army of analysts rarely shout "sell." They rarely utter the S-word at all. But Merrill Lynch is trying to change that.
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DealBook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sometimes Wall Street seems a bit like the make-believe Lake Wobegon: Most stocks are above average, and it is always a good time to buy. Merrill Lynch’s new rating system is designed to run counter to that, forcing its analysts to assign “underperform” ratings to 1 out of every 5 stocks they cover. That would [...]
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Property Highlights of Singapore (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source : TODAY, Thursday, May 15, 2008 IT COULD take a few years for the United States economy to bounce back. This was the prediction from one of Merrill Lynch's top strategists at the start of its "Rising Stars" conference in Singapore yesterday. Mr Mark Matthews, the firm's chief Asia strategist , said: "We are looking at a protracted recovery that's going to take the economy two to three...
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YHOO - BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Before the bell , Deals , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) , Merrill Lynch (MER) , Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT) IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI ) needs to build up its little Ask.com franchise before it is spun out in a breakup of the parent company. Ask.com is an "also ran" in the search engine fight which includes Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ), Microsoft...
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beris | 11/15/2007
It's official, John Thain is a new CEO of Merrill Lynch ( MER ). Below is a statement just issued by Merrill. John A. Thain Named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch Last update: 11/14/2007 4:06:01 PM NEW YORK, Nov 14, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., (MER) today announced that John A. Thain, Chief Executive Officer, Director and Member of Management Committee of
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beris | 11/04/2007
We already know, Merrill Lynch ( MER ) is in a free fall for months now. Adding to their losses for the year is today's major decline, over 10%, on fears that it's already troubled mortgage business losses might have actually be worse than worse. Deutsche Bank ( DB ) estimated this morning that the brokerage may write down total of $10 billion for losses on their subprime mess holdings. But hey, to
