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John Goff Is Pinching Himself
Nov 20, 2009, 4:31pm
Posted by Jon Shazar
To: Morgan Stanley From: John Goff RE: Thanks a billion OK, OK, thanks $951 million. It was really great to have you take this albatross off my hands a couple of years ago. The timing could not have been better...
Jeffrey Chiang Will Be Receiving No New Offers Of Employment
Oct 22, 2009, 9:33am
Posted by Bess Levin
So! Firms are starting to hire again, which is very exciting to those of you trying to improve your situation. Perhaps it's been a while since a lot have gone through this process, and you're a little rusty on the...
If John Mack Had Gotten His Way, He And Blankfein Would've Told Jimmy Chanos And His Friends Where They Could Go On National TV
Oct 06, 2009, 1:37pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Most of you will probably agree that when you want to get a serious message out the (financial services) masses, the best medium through which to send it is a place where your news is served with a dash of...
Morgan Stanley Muscling In On Goldman Turf
May 26, 2009, 11:08am
Posted by Equity Private
This was an entirely familiar story, with the wrong name attached. A former Morgan Stanley trader has been fined £140,000 and banned by the City watchdog after he traded ahead of clients to profit from their orders. It was the...
CNBC: Wells Fargo To Offer $6 Billion In Common Stock
May 07, 2009, 4:10pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Meaning we can cross John Stumpf off this list? Update: Morgan Stanley to offer $2 billion in common stock and sell $3 billion of debt not backed by the FDIC....
Ford Shorts: 13% Carrying Costs
Mar 05, 2009, 5:15pm
Posted by Equity Private
The Huffington Post is running a piece on Morgan Stanley's effort to find borrows for Ford shorts a few days ago. In short: 13% carrying costs. The shorts must be having quite a time finding borrows. Morgan Stanley's 13% Payout...
Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark
Nov 25, 2008, 8:13am
Posted by Equity Private
Amid all the head scratching and hand wringing in yesterday's Morgan Stanley crisis review piece in the Wall Street Journal, an interesting series of data points seem to have largely gone unnoticed. They are here: You will notice that the...
That's Not A Run. Now THAT'S A Run.
Oct 27, 2008, 3:48pm
Posted by Equity Private
Morgan Stanley endured $46 billion in September money market redemptions, forcing the firm to buy $23 billion in instruments from the various money market funds hit by the cash siphon. One presumes that these instruments were then to be laid...
The Morgan Stanley Memo Draft
Oct 13, 2008, 10:49am
Posted by Equity Private
To: All Employees From: John Mack That was really fucking close, people.I am pleased to let you know that we have officially closed today on our $9 billion equity investment from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) - a day earlier...
The Sound Of Silence
Oct 12, 2008, 2:31pm
Posted by Equity Private
Silence on the Morgan Stanley front cannot be good. For all our ribbing, Japanese financial institutions are not stupid. Walking into a transaction that begins with a de facto loss of rather significant proportions is unlikely in the extreme. And...
Mogan Stanley Melting Down?
Oct 10, 2008, 1:51pm
Posted by Equity Private
Reuters is one of many reporting rather nasty spikes in Morgan Stanley's credit default swaps. To wit: Debt protection costs for Morgan Stanley rose as the bank's five year credit default swaps rose to an upfront payment of 28 percent...
Mitsubishi Takes 20 Percent Stake In Morgan Stanley
Sep 22, 2008, 8:31am
Posted by Bess Levin
Continuing the Japanese glutton for punishment trend, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has said it will take a twenty percent stake in the (erstwhile?) investment bank. Press Release From Mitsubishi [PDF]...
I Want To See Subpoenas At 620 Eighth Avenue Yesterday
Sep 19, 2008, 11:28am
Posted by Equity Private
We have the best readers in all of finance. Yes, they have names like "MostOffensive," but they catch big ones for us now and then. The reality is that the media can do far more damage far more quickly than...
Morgan Stanley's Auction Rate Securites Buyback: Too Little, Too Late
Posted in Auction Rate Securities, Aug 12, 2008, 8:26am
Posted by John Carney
Investors in auction rate securities got some relief when UBS and Citi said they would buy back those bought by retail investors and charities. Merrill followed suit, although its buy back would be delayed until next year. But when Morgan...
Question
Aug 05, 2008, 1:57pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Whatever happened with those ads Morgan Stanley shot in December, the ones with the male Vietnamese models? They were *supposed* to run in the Journal and online but the interns have been looking for them daily and so far, nothing....
Bonus Watch '08: Morgan Stanley Update
Jul 25, 2008, 9:55am
Posted by Bess Levin
Exceptional second years at Morgan Stanley are said to be receiving 100k, a figure that sounds high but was apparently made possible "by dicking over the middle and bottom tiers."...
Credit Suisse: This Is Just Like That Time Citi Was In The Toilet!
Jul 24, 2008, 3:40pm
Posted by Bess Levin
You know, other than now. Credit Suisse analysts issued a report today that is supposed to make you feel better about the "issues" shares of Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Citi have been having of late, by reminding us that...
Bonus Watch '08: Morgan Stanley
Jul 24, 2008, 3:02pm
Posted by Bess Levin
"Average" first years in ISG got 50k, "average" second years got 65k. Some are "disappointed," some are "relieved," some are waiting for their more exceptional colleagues to tell them what to think....
Bonus Watch '08: Morgan Stanley
Jul 22, 2008, 2:03pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Do you feel that? The sound of nothing going on today? Here's something (that's 48 hours away from being) exciting (if you are a Morgan Stanley analyst on the summer cycle): Thursday is the big day. And for the rest...
Morgan Stanley-Charlie Rose Collusion?
Jul 08, 2008, 12:52pm
Posted by Bess Levin
So Bearpont Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was on Charlie Rose last night talking about the purple pot smoking elephant in the room and even though it would've been a lot cooler if Dimon had gone on Inside The Actor's...
