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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Morgan Stanley (MS) Chief Financial Officer Colm Kelleher said Tuesday that its joint venture in Japan with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MTU, 8306.TO) still faces a number of regulatory hurdles before the combination can begin.
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Trading Goddess Stock Blog! (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
$2.5 Trillion - That's the size of of the global oil scam . It's a number so large that, to put it in perspective, we will now begin measuring the damage done to the global economy in Madoff units ($50Bn rip-offs) . That's right - $2.5Tn is 50 TIMES the amount of money that Bernie Madoff scammed from investors in his lifetime, yet it is also LESS than the MONTHLY EXCESS price the global population...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zacks.com submits: Morgan Stanley ( MS ) is pursuing a buyer to sell its 34% stake that it holds in investment bank China International Capital Corporation (CICC). Morgan Stanley’s role in CICC has been reduced to that of a passive investor, prompting the case for disinvestment. Morgan Stanley received approval from Chinese regulators early last year to sell its stake in CICC. However, it then...
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Reuters: Hurricane Ida is heading toward Gulf oil fields. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will make its bid for Cadbury. Reuters: GE (NYSE:GE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) have agreed to a NBCU valuation. Reuters: The IMF is considering an insurance levy on banks. Reuters: Opel unions want autonomy as a condition for talks. Reuters: Advanta filed for bankruptcy protection. Reuters: Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS)...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
CHICAGO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for MS, YHOO, NTAP, CREE, and FFIV.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of U.S. financial stocks rose on Monday, clawing back some Friday losses as regional bank stocks led broad gains. BB&T Corp. led all gainers, rising 4% after analysts at Stifel Nicolaus raised the shares to hold from sell. Among other regional banks rising, Marshall & Ilsley , PNC Financial and US Bancorp all added about 4%. Losses were scare in the sector...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
LODNON (MarketWatch) -- Stock exchange operator NYSE Euronext Inc. said Friday that its third-quarter net profit fell 28% to $125 million, or 48 cents a share, from $174 million, or 66 cents a share, a year earlier. Total revenue for the quarter slipped 3.5% to $1.16 billion. Excluding the impact of merger expenses, exit costs and other one-off items, the group said it earned 53 cents a share in the...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Zachary Scheidt submits: Over the past two months, the IPO market has heated up, allowing companies and private investors to access liquidity by selling new shares to the public. While the performance of these deals have varied from company to company, Verisk Analytics ( VRSK ) turned out to be one of the better managed, more profitable transactions for investors. The stock was offered to the public...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Filed under: Bank of America (BAC) , Morgan Stanley (MS) In wealth management circles, Robert McCann is a pro. After all, he ran Merrill Lynch's financial advisory business -- known as the "thundering herd" -- which is now part of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ). However, he left in January and wanted another opportunity. But there was a problem: he had a noncompete. So, with the help of skillful...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Morgan Stanley ( MS ) Q3 2009 Earnings Call October 21, 2009 11:00 am ET Complete Story »
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Morgan Stanley MS might be back in the black, but its latest results demonstrate the earnings gap remains wide with rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS The biggest realignment of Wall Street since the Great Depression has caused both investment banks to pursue very different structures--and that's caused a rift between their results.
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Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Morgan Stanley amps up its trading profile
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Morgan Stanley (MS) reported third-quarter 2009 income of $498 million this morning or 38 cents per share, compared with a loss of $159 million or $1.37 per share in the prior quarter and an income of $7.7 billion, or $7.38 per share a year ago. The results were much ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 30 cents per share. [More...]
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Financial Skeptic (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Morgan Stanley (MS) came out with some better earnings and some rather strange statements in their press release. Look at the headline where they say “Continued Improvement in Morgan Stanley’s Debt-Related Credit Spreads Reduced Earnings per Diluted Share by $0.36” What improves and then reduces earnings? Then John J. Mack, Chairman and CEO, said “Although we still have work...
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sahilsimran | 02/16/2009
Morgan Stanley is expected to cut around 2,000 jobs this month. According to a report in The Times, the cull will focus on back-office roles and will not affect financial advisers, who are involved in the imminent launch of a joint venture with Citigroup. The bank is in the process of acquiring a majority stake in the [...] readmore