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...Group to buy engineering group United Flexible for $345m (FT) Meet Morgan Stanley’s chief cartoonist (FT) Global bond sell-off drags down stocks (FT) Guy Hands raises €400m in booming fundraising market...
...We don’t mean Citigroup or Morgan Stanley or BlackRock getting to choose who runs the economy in this country so they can capture our government. No,” she said....
...On the other side of the league table is Morgan Stanley, with only 0.8 per cent of its 3,800 brokers ever penalised for bad behaviour: (Note that the number of advisers at certain firms may look smaller...
...The Rise and Fall of Nations: Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World, by Ruchir Sharma, Allen Lane, RRP£25/WW Norton, RRP$27.95 Ruchir Sharma is head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment...
...Think of Stanley Kubrick ending The Shining with a close-up of an old photograph that on TV would simply make you squint. Cinema elevates....
...” banks such as Morgan Stanley and First Boston....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...It bought Smith Barney from Citigroup last year....
...Morgan Stanley has sharpened its focus on the market since it agreed to buy retail brokerage Smith Barney from Citi in 2009....
...Morgan Stanley is in the process of buying Smith Barney, the US retail brokerage, from its joint venture partner Citigroup and plans to take over the remaining 35 per cent of the brokerage by the end of...
...Deposits have doubled in the same period to $71bn and are expected to jump to $128bn when Morgan Stanley completes its acquisition of the rest of Smith Barney....
...bank’s stake in Smith Barney, the retail brokerage, to Morgan Stanley....
...Morgan Stanley, which owns 51 per cent of Smith Barney, is exercising its right to acquire an additional 14 per cent from Citigroup, which owns the rest of the shares....
...Morgan Stanley has been expanding its own asset management business, including its own private bank, through its Morgan Stanley Smith Barney venture....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The trades led to losses for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney of about $14.9m, according to Finra.” (Bloomberg) COMMENT AND CURIOS - George Pagoulatos: Greece should not be sacrificed for the euro....
...(Wall Street Journal) - All about StanChart’s nemesis… (Bloomberg) - Morgan Stanley will retire the “Smith Barney” name next month....
...the rest of Citigroup brokerage Smith Barney, according to people familiar with the matter....
...The focus on serving wealthier Americans will pit Wells against Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley’s Smith Barney, with their larger network of retail brokers....
...Anyhow, moving along: Global Wealth Management Group delivered net revenues of $3.3 billion, with net new assets for the quarter of $15.5 billion, a record since the inception of the Morgan Stanley Smith...
...Morgan Stanley climbed 0.4 per cent to $17.17 as Credit Suisse analysts estimated the market value of the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokerage – which is 51 per cent owned by Morgan Stanley – at $15bn,...
...Morgan Stanley took a charge of $1.7bn, or $1.02 a share, on the conversion of preferred stock by its largest investor, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial....
...The equity trading business was also solid, while the retail brokerage business benefited from the joint-venture with Citigroup’s Smith Barney, which Morgan Stanley now controls....
...The shares of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Citigroup have tumbled by more than 10 per cent since the start of the year....
...He joined Morgan Stanley’s global autos team in 2004 and worked as a research associate before picking up lead coverage of the North America autos sector in 2009....
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