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News Breaks | | | | January 17, 2013 | | 14:31 EDT |  | MS | Earnings Preview: Morgan Stanley to report results following stock rally
Morgan Stanley (MS) is scheduled to report Q4 earnings before the open on Friday, January 18, with a conference call scheduled for 10:00 am ET. Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that provides financial advisory and capital raising services to clients... EXPECTATIONS: Analysts are looking for EPS of 27c on revenue of $7.02B, according to First Call. The consensus range for EPS is 15c-40c on revenue of $5.94B-$7.60B... LAST QUARTER: Morgan Stanley reported stronger than expected third quarter results, excluding certain items related to the valuation of its debt. However, the company’s institutional securities revenue sank to $1.376B from $6.41B during the same period in 2011, and its institutional securities business swung to a pre-tax loss of $1.917B, versus a profit of $3.447B in the third quarter of 2011. On a positive note, the bank’s global wealth management unit generated revenue of $3.36B last quarter, up from $3.226B, but the unit’s pre-tax income fell to $239M from $356M. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said on November 29 that he wanted to use some of the bank’s excess capital to increase returns for its shareholders, The Financial Times reported. More specifically, on December 11 The Wall Street Journal reported that Morgan Stanly was considering buying back shares for the first time in more than four years. The bank will have to receive permission from the Fed in order to buy back shares. In other news, Morgan Stanley is reportedly planning to cut 1,600 jobs in its investment banking unit, and it, together with Goldman Sachs (GS), agreed to pay a total of $557M to the Fed to settle accusations of mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure improprieties... STREET RESEARCH: Analysts have had mixed views on Morgan Stanley in recent weeks. SunTrust on January 3 downgraded the stock to Reduce from Neutral, as the firm believes that the bank may report weaker than expected results in 2013 and 2014, while it may return less cash to shareholders than many on the Street are expecting. Conversely, CLSA increased its price target on the stock to $27 from $23 on January 2. CLSA wrote that Morgan Stanley is the cheapest bank based on franchise value, and that ultimately the company will aggressively downsize its fixed income business, improving its return on equity. The firm maintained a Buy rating on the stock... PRICE ACTION: Over the past six months, Morgan Stanley’s stock has surged over 43%. The shares have continued their strong run recently, gaining about 7.5% since the beginning of the year. | |
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| May 16, 2013 | | 18:49 EDT |  | MS | Senior holders may face first CMBS losses since crisis, WSJ reports
 Subscribe for More Information | | | 06:41 EDT | | MS | Big banks to benefit from U.S. concession on derivatives, NY Times says
Subscribe for More Information | | | May 15, 2013 | | 17:26 EDT |  | MS | Third Point gives quarterly update on stakes
NEW STAKES: Virgin Media (VMED), Tiffany (TIF), B/E Aerospace (BEAV), Anadarko (APC), and Thermo Fisher (TMO). INCREASED STAKES: International Paper (IP), Abbvie (ABBV), TransDigm (TDG), Constellation Brands (STZ), and Dollar General (DG). DECREASED STAKES: Delphi (DLPH), Murphy Oil (MUR), AIG (AIG), LyondellBasell (LYB), and Liberty Global (LBTYA). LIQUIDATED STAKES: Tesoro (TSO), Morgan Stanley (MS), Symantec (SYMC), Herbalife (HLF), and Illumina (ILMN). | | | 17:03 EDT | | MS | Soros gives quarterly update on stakes
NEW STAKES: MeadWestvaco (MWV), Brocade (BRCD), Red Hat (RHT), Liberty Global (LBTYK), and VMware (VMW). INCREASED STAKES: Google (GOOG), Liberty Global (LBTYA), EQT Corp (EQT), Charter (CHTR), and US Airways (LCC). DECREASED STAKES: Citigroup (C), AIG (AIG), Apple (AAPL), Invesco (IVZ), and Motorola Solutions (MSI). LIQUIDATED STAKES: JPMorgan (JPM), General Electric (GE), CF Industries (CF), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Capital One (COF). | | | 12:12 EDT |  | MS | Morgan Stanley price target raised to $36 from $30 at CLSA
Subscribe for More Information | | | May 14, 2013 | | 14:44 EDT |  | MS | Morgan Stanley hits close to multi-year highs, levels to watch
Subscribe for More Information | | | 11:07 EDT | | MS | Morgan Stanley hits close to multi-year highs, levels to watch
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:33 EDT | | MS | CFTC investigates swap contracts, FT reports
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a “special call” asking Wall Street banks and other traders to provide documents that would prove recent derivatives transactions known as “exchanges of futures for swaps” were legal. Lawyers at the CFTC enforcement division are also scrutinizing the trades for possible violations. The probe is into the legitimacy of more than 1M energy and metals transactions by the biggest traders in commodities markets over the past two years.Reference Link | | | 06:19 EDT | | MS | Brokerage firms see market share drop, competition increase, Bloomberg reports
Subscribe for More Information | | | 05:44 EDT | | MS | Banks work deals from both sides of the field, WSJ reports
Subscribe for More Information | | | | May 13, 2013 | | 15:04 EDT | | MS | Fed says large banks must submit midyear stress tests on July 5
Eighteen large U.S. bank holding companies are required to submit the results of their company-run, midyear stress tests to the Federal Reserve on July 5, the Federal Reserve said. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required that large bank holding companies and non-bank financial institutions that are designated for Federal Reserve supervision by the Financial Stability Oversight Council conduct two stress tests each year. In the midyear test, which is being conducted for the first time in 2013, each firm develops its own baseline, adverse, and severely adverse scenarios to best reflect its individual operations and risks. Each firm in the midyear test is required to release the results produced under its severely adverse scenario, helping promote market discipline and understanding of the financial conditions and risks of individual firms, between September 15 and September 30, the Fed added. | | | May 9, 2013 | | 08:09 EDT | | MS | JPMorgan, Bank of America had perfect trading records in Q1, Bloomberg reports
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) had perfect trading records in the first quarter, making money every day of the period as Morgan Stanley (MS) posted losses in eight sessions and Goldman Sachs (GS) in two, reports Bloomberg. One daily gain at JPMorgan was over $200M as the bank recovered from last year’s London Whale derivatives loss, the company said in a regulatory filing. Reference Link | | | 05:43 EDT | | MS | Big banks take the offense against Washington, WSJ reports
The biggest U.S. banks are going on the offensive to fight off growing efforts in Washington to rein them in, reports the Wall Street Journal. They've hired longtime, influential Washington insiders to deflect regulatory and political pressure to strengthen their finances and to sell assets. Reference Link | | | May 8, 2013 | | 07:56 EDT | | MS | Morgan Stanley expands types of debt it buys, Bloomberg reports
Morgan Stanley added $677M of collateralized debt obligations to its available-for-sale portfolio in Q1 and increased its corporate bond holdings to $3.53B, according to a regulatory filing, reports Bloomberg. The portfolio was invested solely in government and agency debt and U.S.-backed student loans at the end of 2011. Reference Link | | | May 5, 2013 | | 19:20 EDT | | MS | N.Y AG plans homeowner enforcement versus financial firms, Bloomberg reports
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