Morgan Stanley
NYSE: MS
$134.06
+$1.63 (+1.2%)
Closing Price on November 15, 2024
MS Articles
Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman (LEH), may lose his jobs soon. Someone has to step in if the brokerage’s stock keeps falling. The company board knows that. Lehman’s COO and CFO has already been pushed...
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This coming week is going to be a rather important week for brokerage and investment banking firms. We have three key firms in the sector reporting earnings: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE:...
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Lehman (LEH) appears to have raised $6 billion from places like The New Jersey Division of Investment and Hank Greenberg’s C.V. Starr fund. It is a nice chunk of change, but it is very bad news...
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These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Wednesday morning in pre-market trading: Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY) cut to Neutral at Cowen. Marriott (NYSE: MAR) cut to Perform at...
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Standard & Poor’s has come out with a report that is actually weighing down on the entire market even though it is sector specific. The ratings agency has cut ratings on several major brokers...
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Billions of dollars in losses and a falling stock price can cost a CEO his job. Wachovia (WB) announced today that its current Chairman, Lanty Smith, has been appointed interim Chief Executive...
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UBS (UBS) had to raise money. The sins of its subprime addiction have come back to haunt it. US bank shareholders should shudder when they look at the pricing that the Swiss bank had to offer to get...
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According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) is proposing to buy Yahoo!’s (YHOO) search business. Reuters writes that Barclays (BCS) is looking at a possible bid for Lehman (LEH). Reuters reports that...
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As each day passes, a larger and larger portion of the analyst community turns on banks and brokerages like a pack of wild dogs. The majority report now seems to be that most large financial...
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Clear Channel (CCU) has a leveraged buy-out in place. Of course, like many of these deals cut last years, the banks tried to walk out a side door. often claiming that the businesses they were buying...
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According to Reuters, Cablevision (CVC) is close to buy newspaper Newsday Reuters writes that RIM (RIM) is releasing its Blackberry Bold, aimed at keeping its lead in the business market. Reuters...
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Hank Greenberg, former chief of AIG (AIG), still walks the avenues of Wall St. at night, plotting how to get his old job back. He has been in a series of disputes with the company since he was asked...
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UBS (UBS) telegraphed all ships in the known world as it sank into the Atlantic like the Titanic. The big bank will fire 5,500 poor souls and sell $15 billion of its subprime mortgage securities...
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The promise from Wall St. firms was implied, not spoken. The heads of operations like Morgan Stanley (MS) and Merrill Lynch (MER) said that the worst was probably over in the credit markets. It was...
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Former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn thinks the credit crisis will take $1 trillion in losses out of the market. That is a number much higher than most estimates. It also means that the trouble...
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