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...The writer is chief European equity strategist at Morgan Stanley Over the past year, European equity markets have confounded many observers, decoupling from macro indicators and broadly continuing to grind...
...One cute example: a senior banker claims his employer, Morgan Stanley, created a token job title to give the false impression he was based in Frankfurt rather than London....
...Notwithstanding the tension, Morgan Stanley alongside PJT Partners, founded by the Morgan Stanley alumnus Paul Taubman, advised Discover on the Capital One buyout....
...He will replace Alan Dickinson. Heka Advisors has appointed Cyrus Shabi as a partner. Shabi was previously global co-head of the building materials investment banking group at Citi....
...James Gorman of Morgan Stanley and Jane Fraser of Citigroup are each former McKinsey management consultants....
...“This [parks and experiences] business remains the earnings growth anchor for the company,” Morgan Stanley says. “We are bullish on its global growth potential in the near and long term.”...
...But all that paled in comparison to the goings-on at the “Flying Kangaroo” where long-serving chief executive Alan Joyce has endured the send-off from hell....
...Brunswick, chaired by Sir Alan Parker, a friend of former UK prime minister David Cameron, has sought to market itself as an adviser to companies on “critical issues” and not just public relations....
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...But the latest Houthi attacks show the risks of this dependence, writes Alan Beattie....
...The FT’s Alan Beattie surveys the damage....
...A history of Gaza: Using maps and charts, Michael Peel and Alan Smith explain the history of the embattled enclave....
...They join from Morgan Stanley and Citi, respectively. Coatue Management managing director Aaron Weiner is leaving the group to start a new hedge fund, Bloomberg reports....
...“With better inflation data, the soft landing camp is in the ascendancy, and that’s the environment where the dollar does least well out of the three scenarios,” said Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist...
...Barclays has named Morgan Stanley’s Pedro Costa as Americas vice-chair of technology, media and telecommunications M&A, based in New York. Alan Joyce is to step down early as CEO of Qantas....
...While this is a lull, the factors that created battles over currency misalignments have not gone away, writes Alan Beattie....
...The value of the carbon trading market worldwide could expand to $100bn by 2030, up from $2bn in 2022, according to Morgan Stanley....
...But whether the crisis heralds a severe blow to globalisation is doubtful, argues FT senior trade writer Alan Beattie....
...Stanley Kubrick UK Stanley Kubrick enlisted his Barry Lyndon production designer Roy Walker to work on the sets for The Shining....
...Additional reporting by Alan Smith and Ella Hollowood in London...
...Smart reads A tale of two bankers Goldman Sachs’ sale of GreenSky illustrates the diverging paths of its chief executive David Solomon and his former colleague Alan Waxman, who runs the consumer lender’...
...The firm, co-founded by former Goldman executives including Alan Waxman, David Stiepleman and Joshua Easterly, has also become a landing spot for the investment bank’s top talent....
...Birkenstock and its advisers — including Goldman, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley — have lined up anchor investors to support the deal....
...A former JPMorgan director, Alan Greenspan, was chair of the Fed and in his pomp. Inflation was under control, exchange rates stable and markets roaring....
...Morgan Stanley has hired veteran investment banker Daniel Cohen from Truist Financial Corp, per Reuters....
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