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...A Morgan Stanley consumer survey for December, published in January, found just over half of respondents expected the economy to improve in the next six months....
...Thomas Nides, a former top Morgan Stanley executive and former US state department official has joined Blackstone Group as its vice chair....
...Things I enjoyed this week In my established tradition of recommending TV that everyone else watched years ago, I am enjoying Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy....
...Investment banking fees at Morgan Stanley were up 16 per cent in the first quarter compared with a year previously. And that pick-up was in evidence across Wall Street....
...Isis-K was “a name [people] should remember”, Germany’s domestic intelligence service head Thomas Haldenwang said last year. “The group is trying to make a name for itself with attacks . . ....
...First-quarter data showed China’s export volumes rose sharply by 14 per cent year on year, even as the price index of those exports fell 12 per cent, according to Robin Xing, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley...
...Morgan Stanley acquired Eaton Vance and its affiliates, including Calvert Research and Management, and Parametric Portfolio Associates in 2021. Morgan Stanley declined to comment....
...Email me: helen.thomas@ft.com. 1) It’s been freezing in London....
...Best, who has a first-class maths degree from the University of Cambridge, started his career with a stint in investment banking at Wall Street powerhouse Morgan Stanley....
...It is the sixth US asset manager to do so, joining Morgan Stanley, PGIA (the US division of Australia’s Perpetual), Dimensional Fund Advisors, Fidelity and First Trust....
...Major lenders like Nomura, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and UBS all took big hits....
...The world is approaching the “zombie years” of natural disasters and rapidly warming temperatures as imagined by my lunch date, the science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson....
...The latest rate cuts marked “another sign of policymakers’ efforts to protect bank net interest margins following a sharp decline in asset yields in recent years”, said Richard Xu, an analyst at Morgan Stanley...
...And you wound up having a lot of investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley jump into the fray....
...Notable examples are Brian Aldiss’s Non-Stop (1958), Robert Heinlein’s Orphans of the Sky (1963) and more recently Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora (2015)....
...Increasing interest in low-carbon steel from buyers, who are prepared to pay a premium according to Morgan Stanley, suggests a commercial opportunity too....
...Jain takes $2.8bn bet on Middle Eastern stocks (FT) Deutsche Bank analysing deals with Commerzbank, ABN Amro and others (Bloomberg) Fund managers urge European regulators to mirror US move to T+1 (FT) Thomas...
...Other banks that did business with Archegos, including Morgan Stanley and UBS, took substantial hits as a result of the forced fire sale....
...Morgan Stanley has about $4bn worth of them. They aren’t risky; there was only $139mn of credit loss allowances against employee loans as of the last 10-K....
...“[A] further drop in net interest margin and [a] reduced capability to digest risk could be the true challenge in the next few years,” Morgan Stanley analysts said....
...Research last year from Morgan Stanley suggests droughts and water scarcity could have a severe impact on key crops from wheat to soybeans....
...“The December employment report was stronger than consensus across the board,” said Stephen Stanley, chief US economist at Santander....
...In its quarterly 10-K regulatory filing, Morgan Stanley said it was “engaged in discussions regarding potential resolution of the investigations” by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of...
...In its quarterly 10-K regulatory filing, Morgan Stanley said it was “engaged in discussions regarding potential resolution of the investigations” by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District...
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