MORGAN STANLEY: The stock market is taking a major turn for the worse, and...
Since June, investors have shifted toward more-defensive sectors like utilities, Morgan Stanley's equity strategists observed.They've been writing to clients this year about a drawn-out bear market in...
View Article9 trends that are keeping IT spending at record highs, according to top IT...
Budgets continue to grow for the IT department as chief information officers continue to prioritize investments in digital transformation and cloud computing, according to Morgan Stanley's Q2 2018 CIO...
View ArticleOver $250 billion has been 'squandered' by mining companies over the last 10...
Global mining companies invested almost $1 trillion in major projects between 2008-2017.Despite strong industry conditions, almost one-third of that — $273 billion — was written off.Global mining...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley rises more than 3% after strong earnings beat (MS)
Morgan Stanley announced second quarter earnings results Wednesday morning. The firm beat analysts' estimates on a number of fronts. Revenue: $10.6 billion, up 12% from the year-ago period Net income:...
View ArticleNo investment is safe as market turbulence spikes to the highest since the...
A combined volatility measure covering 14 assets across four major market groups is on pace to finish the year at its highest level since 2008, according to Morgan Stanley data.One of the main...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: Here are the 7 tech companies most likely to get acquired in...
Quant analysts at Morgan Stanley have updated their list of tech companies that are most likely to be acquired over the next 12 months. For a second straight quarter in Q2, prospective buyers made more...
View ArticleILLIQUIDITY IS BACK: Big, unexpected market moves are happening more often as...
Statistically, surprises are increasingly becoming unsurprising across all asset classes, according to Morgan StanleyA big part of the reason: Investment assets are becoming less liquid.Veteran traders...
View ArticleThe power behind the throne at Morgan Stanley: Here's who insiders say is in...
The announcement that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will step down this fall has sparked new interest in succession planning at uptown rival Morgan Stanley.Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has been...
View ArticleA top Morgan Stanley electronic trading exec is out (MS)
Brian Gallagher, a top Morgan Stanley electronic trading executive, has left the firm after 15 years.Gallagher, a senior sales person who formerly headed European trading at the bank, departed in...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley has poached a Credit Suisse crypto banker to head 'digital...
Morgan Stanley has hired Andrew Peel as head of digital asset markets.Peel spent 12 years at Credit Suisse and is a self-declared "subject matter expert for bitcoin and cryptocurrency."Peel's...
View ArticleCEO departures can wipe out billions from a company's value — here are the...
Morgan Stanley has analyzed "key man" risk, looking at the damage that might be done if an influential CEO suddenly steps down.Asset managers, software companies, and large-cap banks have the highest...
View ArticleWaymo is worth $100 billion more than previous estimates, Morgan Stanley says...
Morgan Stanley says Waymo, Google's self-driving car unit, could be worth $175 billion, its highest valuation yet. That number is up $100 billion from the bank's first estimate of $75 billion, thanks...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: CEO turnover is on the rise and these 7 cloud software...
Intel employees woke up one morning at the end of June to surprising news: Brian Krzanich, CEO of the company since 2013, had resigned after the board found he had violated company policy by having an...
View ArticleInvestors have turned complacent and are in danger of being sideswiped by a...
As investors take time off during the summer, they're also taking their eyes off several things that point to a "likely correction" in the stock market, according to Morgan Stanley's global investment...
View ArticleAlmost 20% of hospitals in the US are in bad shape, according to Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley concluded that after analyzing over 6,000 US hospitals, nearly 20% were either weak or at risk of potential closure. There's a number of factors pressuring hospital margins, including...
View ArticleAnother Wall Street bank has dropped coverage of Tesla — and it could be a...
Morgan Stanley has joined Goldman Sachs in restricting its research coverage of Tesla.Tesla CEO Elon Musk is attempting to take the electric-car maker private and has begun tapping banks for...
View ArticleTesla surges after Morgan Stanley becomes the second Wall Street bank to drop...
Morgan Stanley dropped coverage of Tesla on Tuesday, becoming the second bank to restrict the stock.Shares surged as much as 5% following the news.Also on Tuesday, new documents show the grueling ways...
View ArticleThe stock market's record-breaking run is masking a dangerous trend brewing...
The stock market's rally to new highs is not an entirely bullish story, according to Morgan Stanley's equity strategists.The rally has been narrow, as it has excluded some key tech stocks that had...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley is urging its super-rich clients to pull out of one of the...
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has told its clients to "consider taking profits" in the consumer-discretionary sector and has offered three alternatives. Consumer spending contributes to more than...
View ArticleAmazon just got its highest price target ever — and could be worth $1.3...
Morgan Stanley has raised its Amazon price target to $2,500 from $1,850.It's now the highest price target on Wall Street, thanks to a new valuation for web services, ads, and third-party sales. Follow...
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