All Posts Tagged With: "Morgan Stanley"

With as much as $300 million in underwriting fees at stake, one of the largest paydays many years for investment bankers, Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) are reportedly among the leading candidates to land the underwriting job for the initial public offering of General Motors. Citing one person with knowledge of the matter, [...]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced Tuesday that in conjunction with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the Williams Institute – UCLA School of Law and The Principal Funds, it will host a private reception and investment symposium on wealth planning for domestic partners on Thursday, May 27, 2010. The Wall Street bank said [...]

If the proposed new government regulations on derivatives remains in the financial reform bill passed on Thursday, large financial institutions like JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM), Goldman (NYSE:GS), and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) could have earnings demolished by up to 20 percent, according to the banks. Assuming that’s close to being accurate, it’s going to be extremely challenging [...]

The EU sovereign debt issue will remain on the table for some time with major financial institutions like Citigroup (NYSE:C),  Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS),  Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC),  are getting hit hard today, as a number of factors have come together to shake investor confidence in the economy and the banking sector in [...]

At the annual shareholder meeting of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), shareholders rejected the proposal that the chairman of the company must be an independent director who hadn’t ever worked as an executive officer there. The board of directors at Morgan Stanley had all opposed the idea, which had originated and was submitted by the Laborers National [...]

As investors have digested the implications of the bailout package of close to $1 trillion for the irresponsible spending by the countries in southern Europe, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) have rightly noted the strong risk of inflation that accompanies the rescue package. Fears are coming from what appears to be an increasingly [...]

Federal regulators are investigating Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) to figure out whether the bank holding company misled investors in regard to mortgage backed investments it was involved in creating, according to recent reports. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, citing people familiar with the situation.  However, Morgan Stanley has already refuted the story. “We [...]

Westar Energy (NYSE:WR) has become a victim of its own success, as its strong 11 percent increase in share price since the early part of March has ended with Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) downgrading them from equal weight to overweight, based on valuation. Westar shares have already surpassed the price target Morgan Stanley was looking for [...]

After falling into a recession last year, Brazil has turned things around and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has raised its estimated growth rate for the economy to 6.8 percent from 5.8 percent. The major challenge now if for Brazil to deal with the increasing inflationary pressures which are threatening to accompany that growth. As it stands [...]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will likely close 120 U.S. brokerage offices in order to remove overlapping that exists with Smith Barney locations, said President and COO Charles D. Johnston, according to a Bloomberg report. Johnston made the announcement while speaking at a conference in New York, stating that U.S. locations will likely be cut down [...]