Morgan Stanley, the sixth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, will increase some executive salaries and double Chief Financial Officer Colm Kelleher's pay a...
Bloomberg | Elizabeth Hester | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business
Morgan Stanley, the sixth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, will increase some executive salaries and double Chief Financial Officer Colm Kelleher's pay as...
Robert Scheer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
How much do you know about the BlackRock hedge fund? Better bone up fast, now that the folks at BlackRock are calling the shots in the government's trillion-dollar bailout program.
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have formally asked the Federal Reserve for permission to repay a combined $20 billion in federal ba...
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business
Reducing the size of banks, it seems to me, would be a win for everyone. We would avoid these bonus brouhahas, the debates about TARP and compensation.
New York Times | GRAHAM BOWLEY | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
A day after federal regulators ordered 10 of the nation's biggest banks to raise a total of $75 billion in extra capital, the first of them, Wells Far...
Kathy McManus | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living
If love means never having to say you're sorry, does apologizing now mean you never have to accept responsibility?
Michael Moore | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Instead of putting those responsible for the financial crisis in jail, why did we give them huge sums of our hard-earned tax dollars. Bernard Madoff is nothing more than the scab on the wound.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Leaving oil trading to the banks portends another financial disaster by tying their viability to the highly volatile world of commodity trading. It's time that the bankers got back to banking the old fashioned way.
MarketWatch | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- By considering the radical step of jettisoning one of its more high-flying trading units, Morgan Stanley and its chief execu...
bloomberg.com | Christine Harper | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Brad Hintz, a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst who has rated Morgan Stanley stock "outperform" since mid-2007, said the bank...
AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss to common shareholders of $578 million, hurt partly by the deteriorating comm...
Tom Pappalardo | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business
Can you imagine being stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with these bankers and suddenly you get ill and need more water than what has been allotted to everyone?
Reuters | Posted 05.10.2009 | Business
(Reuters) -- Morgan Stanley's (MS.N) bottom line will be hurt by the recent rebound in its bond prices, the Wall Street Journal said. On account of...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.06.2009 | Comedy
Just moments after Mr. Cramer delivered his upbeat prediction, stock prices went into an epic free-fall unprecedented in the annals of modern trading as millions of investors rushed for the exits.
Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera and Krishna Guha | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
US banks that have received government aid, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, are considering buying toxic assets...
Amy Ephron | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
Not to sound like Pollyanna but it's time for some old-fashioned values and common sense. Invest in something you can believe in. Don't create a toxic environment where people can profit from failure and loss.
bloomberg.com | Nick Baker | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should sell U.S. stocks following the steepest rally since the 1930s because earnings are likely to keep weakening, ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
President Obama says we should stay angry but express our outrage in productive ways. I say we should get rid of the anger altogether.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
If there has ever been an example of "sow and ye shall reap" gone awry, it is the madcap stripping of the national treasure by those who have brought us to the edge of the cliff.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
AIG CEO Edward Liddy, facing tough questions from a congressional panel reviewing the government-subsidized firm's $165 million in bonus payments, sai...
Bob Edgar | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Something is horribly wrong when a company that receives billions in taxpayer money from the federal government gives its senior managers big pay rais...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
On Feb. 4, we asked HuffPost readers to send us tips if they knew of wasteful spending by banks that had benefited from taxpayer funds through the TAR...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
Morgan Stanley was offering Ford shareholders a highly unusual deal on Monday. Two days before Ford announced a major debt restructuring that diluted...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
It is past time that a distinction be made between that part of AIG's business that was a "large and stable insurance company," and that part that was a "hedge fund," or better put, a casino.
Bloomberg | Elizabeth Hester | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business