Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley's 13% Payout Offer To Short Ford Stock (EXCLUSIVE)

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...

Billions for AIG to Protect the Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


Raymond J. Learsy

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.

Morgan Stanley Golf Tournament Canceled

Reuters | Joseph A. Giannone | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business


NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N), citing a tougher market and political environment, said on Wednesday it will not entertain clients...

Morgan Stanley Broker Bonuses As Much As $3 Billion

CNBC | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 03.24.2009 | Business


Morgan Stanley's brokerage joint venture with Citigroup Inc will pay brokers as much as $3 billion to stay on, while Wells Fargo & Co will not offe...

Sonny Kalsi, Morgan Stanley Top Official, Suspended

Financial Times | Jamil Anderlini. Francesco Guerrera and Greg Farrell | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business


Morgan Stanley has suspended its global head of real estate investing after revealing that actions by an employee believed to be the former China prop...

Newsweek: Geithner Needs To Put Failing Banks Out Of Their Misery

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business


It was a classic populist spectacle, reminiscent of William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech or Huey Long's mid-Depression campaign to "Share t...

Executive Pay Caps Cut Out Of Stimulus Compromise: WaPo

Washington Post | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics


Congressional efforts to impose stringent restrictions on executive compensation appeared to be evaporating yesterday as House and Senate negotiators ...

Banks Racing To Pay Back Bailout Funds After Congressional Lashing

Bloomberg | Linda Shen and Bradley Keoun | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business


Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley may decide after enduring yesterday's Congressional hearing tha...

TARP Recipients Testifying For Congressmen They Bankrolled

Open Secrets | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics


The eight CEOs testifying Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee about how their companies are using billions of dollars in bailout f...

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Outpacing Commercial Lenders

Bloomberg | Elizabeth Hester | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business


Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, securities firms that morphed into banks to endure a loss of confidence in Wall S...

Sam Stein

Bailed-Out Firms Distributing Cash Rewards: "Please Do Not Call It A Bonus"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics


Two Wall Street firms that received at least $60 billion in government bailout funds will be rewarding their financial advisers with controversial ret...

Patrice Delatour, Wife Busted For Looting Customers' College Education Accounts

New York Post | MURRAY WEISS | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business


A former Morgan Stanley executive and his wife looted $400,000 from bank accounts set up by customers to pay for their children's college education, p...

TARP is Welfare; Control It

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

Taxpayers, who despise the notion of welfare queens, should demand Congress "discredit" and dethrone the kings of Wall Street.

Sitting in Natural Hot Springs, Sipping Champagne, and Noshing on Caviar in Davos?

Judith Ellis | Posted 03.01.2009 | World


Judith Ellis

Considering the climate at Davos, I wonder what the bankers and financial analysts will say and to whom will they be saying it? The likes of themselves?

Your TARP Money is Being Used to Prop Up the Price of Oil

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


Raymond J. Learsy

No, it's not about your local gas station not getting a loan from its bank to keep it in business. It is far more insidious. It's about hundreds of millions of TARP dollars being spent on oil speculation.

Bailed-Out Firms Use Offshore Tax Havens

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 02.16.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Eighty-three of the nation's 100 largest corporations, including Citigroup, Bank of America and News Corp., had subsidiaries in offshor...

2009: The Year of Light Green

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green


Andrew Winston

What will happen now in this damaged economy? It would be silly to suggest that the intensity of the focus on green will continue unabated. But we'll see a form of what I'll call "light green" this year.

Citigroup Confirms Morgan Stanley Merger Talks

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley agreed Tuesday to combine their brokerages in a deal that shows how much Citigroup wants to slim do...

Maddow Busts Morgan Stanley Board Member for Lack of Transparency

David Sirota | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media


David Sirota

In the name of transparency, Rachel Maddow went back and clarified that a bailout-justifying guest of hers actually had a blatant conflict of interest.

Morgan Stanley Losses: $2.37 Billion In Fiscal 4Q

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 01.17.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley said Wednesday it lost $2.37 billion during its fiscal fourth quarter as it took a range of losses on assets amid one ...

No Cheer For Investment Banks: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs To Report Losses

New York Post | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business


Morgan Stanley's expected to ring up losses of about $1 billion when it reports its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday. Continued fretfulness...

Morgan Stanley Chief John Mack Will Take No Bonus This Year

CNBC, WSJ, Bloomberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business


CNBC's Charlie Gasparino is reporting that Morgan Stanley chief John Mack will not be taking a bonus this year. It is the second consecutive year that...

Should the Government Bail Out Hip Hop?

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 01.07.2009 | Entertainment


Casey Gane-McCalla

Just like rappers, Wall Street execs spend obscene amounts of money on strippers, cars, vacations and houses. How come their houses and cars aren't being repossessed like all the rappers?

Dream Jobs In Dubai Dry Up

Financial Times | Posted 01.02.2009 | World


Until only a few months ago, many executives from developed economies viewed the Gulf as bolthole to ride out the global economic storm. Now the ax...

Morgan Stanley Plans More Layoffs

New York Times | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business


Morgan Stanley said Wednesday it would cut 10 percent of the staff in its institutional securities group and 9 percent of its asset-management group, ...