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☆ Morgan Stanley delivers a much-needed rebound quarter and eases concerns about a key overhang
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Morgan Stanley delivered mostly better-than-expected first-quarter results Tuesday morning — a much-needed report for the bank, whose stock has lagged industry peers and tested our patience. Morgan Stanley Why we own it : We own Morgan Stanley for the rebound taking place in IPO and M & A activity along with growth in wealth management, which provides more durable fee-based revenues. MS YTD mountain Morgan Stanley YTD Shares of Morgan Stanley were up more than 2% after Tuesday's earnings release and conference call, building on Monday's modest gains, which broke a three-session losing streak. Capital returns Morgan Stanley repurchased 12 million shares in the first quarter, at an average purchase price of $86.79 per share. Signage is displayed outside Morgan Stanley & Co. headquarters in the Times Square neighborhood of New York.

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☆ What Wall Street bosses from Goldman Sachs to JPMorgan are saying about the jobs outlook for 2024 in investment banking, wealth management, and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | Alex Morrell | Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Last year, banks opened 2023 by forecasting layoffs, including for the investment bankers who suddenly had nothing to do following the pandemic-era M&A and IPO boom. Citigroup kicked off 2024 ominously, warning that it will lay off as many as 20,000 employees by 2026. The bank expects 2024 expenses to increase further to total $90 billion, up $2.8 billion from 2023, and much of that will be focused on hiring. CFO Barnum on Friday said the bank is gearing up for a "rebound in the investment banking wallet." Headcount declined 3% to 80,006 from 82,427, while compensation expenses rose to $24.5 billion from $23 billion.

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So far the signs of revival has not translated into strong investment banking revenue, but markets see a better outlook. Goldman took $1.4 billion in writedowns in the second quarter tied to its consumer businesses and real estate investments. In discussing their earnings, Wall Street executives cited a flurry of initial public offerings as an encouraging sign that activity in capital markets will pick up after months in the doldrums. The lender was buoyed by a slight pickup in equity capital markets and a focus on its middle-market business. At Citigroup (C.N), CEO Jane Fraser warned on Friday that "the long-awaited rebound in investment banking has yet to materialize."

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☆ US bank shares jump on interest income and deals optimism, but outlook mixed
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The bank said it expects full year NII to be up about 8% at about $57 billion. The bank's full year NII outlook remains unchanged at 20% growth, Chief Financial Officer Dermot McDonogh told analysts. Overall, its profit slipped 18% in the second quarter as a fewer deals hurt investment banking revenues. Sluggish deals have been a sore spot across Wall Street with global investment banking activity plunging to $15.7 billion in the second quarter, the lowest since 2012, according to Dealogic. While investment banking and trading were also a drag on earnings for big banks on Friday, JPMorgan likewise said the bank was seeing “green shoots” in trading and investment banking.

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July 18 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's profit beat estimates as growth in its wealth management business offset lower trading revenue in the second quarter, and executives expressed optimism about the economic environment. Morgan Stanley (MS.N) shares rose more than 6%, shrugging off the 14% drop in profits. Excluding one-off items, Morgan Stanley earned $1.24 a share on revenue of $13.46 billion, comfortably beating estimates of $1.15 a share on $13.08 billion revenue, according to data from Refinitiv IBES. Still, "we expect investment banking to lead the recovery in the next quarter," she said. The Wall Street giant followed rivals including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in reporting tepid trading results.

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☆ Wall Street faces life in China’s second tier
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Antony Currie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Recent earnings reports from U.S. investment banks defy the sober mood among China-focused financiers. Morgan Stanley’s (MS.N) Asia revenue in the first three months of the year was almost 40% above the final quarter of 2022. Companies going public in Hong Kong have raised $2 billion so far this year, per Dealogic. At some point Hong Kong IPOs and cross-border M&A are likely to perk up. Many of those trades flow through the Hong Kong bourse’s Stock Connect links to the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.

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May 21 (Reuters) - The absence of women from the slate of potential Morgan Stanley (MS.N) CEO successors underscores the importance of cultivating and keeping diverse talent, corporate governance experts say. Morgan Stanley co-presidents Ted Pick and Andy Saperstein, and head of investment management Dan Simkowitz, are the front-runners to succeed James Gorman, who said on Friday he plans to step down as chief executive within a year. The most recent U.S. workforce diversity data comprehensively reported by the Wall Street banks shows women were less represented in leadership positions at Morgan Stanley than at other top U.S. banks as of 2021. A Morgan Stanley representative declined to comment. To be sure, Morgan Stanley has several women in top roles, including Chief Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya.

☆ Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman plans to step down after years of making the bank the envy of Wall Street. Here's a look at his legacy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | Alex Morrell | Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said he will step down in the next 12 months. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman was giddy. Seeking stabilityTo understand where Morgan Stanley is now, you need to return to the peak of the financial crisis. It didn't take long before Morgan Stanley began utilizing its new license to acquire clients' deposits, reducing its reliance on wholesale funding. Mack, who helped design the 1997 Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter merger, had been pushed out by Purcell in 2001.

☆ Morgan Stanley to cut 3,000 jobs in second quarter - source
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 1 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is planning to eliminate about 3,000 jobs in the second quarter, a source told Reuters on Monday, in its second round of job cuts in six months. Slow dealmaking and a tough economic environment are prompting the investment bank to look at its headcount, the source said. The latest move follows another quarter in which fees from the investment banking unit fell, dragging total revenue down nearly 2% to $14.5 billion. Last month, Morgan Stanley finance chief Sharon Yeshaya had said that "expense management" was a priority given the broader market uncertainty and elevated inflation. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman had said in December that the bank would make "modest" job cuts worldwide without giving an exact number.

Gorman has transformed the Wall Street powerhouse into a more diversified firm that is less reliant on its traditional strengths -- trading and investment banking -- since taking the helm in 2010. He was also the key architect behind Morgan Stanley's purchase of Smith Barney, a brokerage and investment adviser that became a cornerstone of the bank's wealth management arm. Morgan Stanley's profit beat expectations as rising revenue from wealth management in the first quarter offset declines in investment banking and trading. Wealth management accounted for 45% of firm's revenue, the results showed. Despite strains at some U.S. banks, Gorman said the industry is not in a banking crisis, nor was it facing problems comparable to the mortgage crash in 2008.

☆ Morgan Stanley netted nearly $20 billion in new client assets from First Republic and other struggling regional banks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Morgan Stanley netted $109.6 billion in new client assets in the first quarter of 2023. Before the hiring binge, Morgan Stanley and other banks gave a $30 billion lifeline to First Republic. Morgan Stanley beat profit estimates with its first-quarter results and got a little boost from the banking crisis. Analyst Steven Chubak of Wolfe Research asked how First Republic advisors flocking to Morgan Stanley had boosted quarterly inflows. That leaves $19.6 billion attributable to advisors and clients fleeing struggling banks like First Republic for Morgan Stanley, a too-big-to-fail institution.

☆ Morgan Stanley profit beats as wealth business cushions deals slump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] A sign is displayed on the Morgan Stanley building in New York U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonApril 19 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley's first-quarter profit beat expectations as rising revenue from its wealth management division offset declines in its investment banking and trading units. The downswing in investment banking activity for Morgan Stanley, which forms the core of the bank's business, dragged total revenue down nearly 2% to $14.5 billion in the quarter. Meanwhile, revenue from equities trading fell 14%, while fixed income trading dropped 12%. While investment banks like Morgan Stanley and Goldman remain relatively insulated from the broader contagion worries of the crisis, the resultant uncertainty has again hurt the outlook for dealmaking, dampening hopes of recovery in the near-term.

☆ Investors step into U.S. bank stocks, but with some caution
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sinéad Carew | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The S&P 500 bank subsector (.SPXBK) is up 4.9% so far in 2023 slightly ahead of the benchmark S&P 500's (.SPX) 3.3% gain. But some investors are circumspect as banks themselves warned during earnings season in January that they expect higher loan losses and weaker demand for borrowing. The rate increases have boosted banks' income, giving them the go-ahead to charge higher interest rates for loans. But now, bank customers with savings accounts are seeking out higher interest rates on deposits, offsetting some lending gains. Barclay's analyst Jason Goldberg sees economic strength as a bigger factor for bank stocks this year than the Fed hikes path.

☆ Twitter makes first interest payment on Musk buyout debt -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Twitter paid about $300 million to a group of banks last week, one of the sources said, confirming an earlier Bloomberg story. The banks declined to comment, while Twitter and Musk did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. The sources did not want to identified because the details of the payment are not public. Morgan Stanley's Chief Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya told Reuters this month the bank's mark-to-market losses on corporate loans include debt to Twitter. Reporting by Saeed Azhar; additional reporting by Matt Tracy; Editing by David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Bank earnings become a post-Covid parlor game
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( John Foley | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Chief among the mysteries is how much interest banks will harvest in 2023 and beyond. Even then, the link between benchmark interest rates and the rate banks actually charge is getting harder to forecast. Bank of America boss Brian Moynihan said that depositors who used to have roughly $3,500 with the bank now have almost four times more. Goldman just laid off 6% of its workforce, but it remains bigger than it was in 2019; Bank of America says it’s still hiring. To that end, the fog is arguably less troublesome for Goldman and Morgan Stanley than it is for JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citigroup (C.N).

Rising interest rates roiled markets last year and global investment banking revenue sank more than 50% from a year-earlier quarter, according to data from analytics firm Dealogic. SHARPLY LOWERAcross the board, investment banking fees were sharply lower. Morgan Stanley's revenue from investment banking business fell 49% in the fourth quarter while Goldman Sachs's investment banking fees fell 48%. JPMorgan's investment banking unit saw its revenue down 57%, Citigroup Inc's (C.N) investment banking revenue plunged 58% while Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) investment banking fees more than halved. Strength in trading helped offset a slump in investment banking, while interest rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve helped income.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Citigroup took a $110 million writedown on leveraged loans in the third quarter, the company said on Friday as its Wall Street competitors downplayed their exposure to the sector. Banks have since pulled back from leveraged financing in the wake of losses taken on Citrix and other deals, as investors lost their appetite for riskier, floating-rate leveraged loans amid rapid interest rate hikes and fears of recession. “There are no real levels of loan write-down this quarter, and that market isn’t yet to clear,” Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive officer, told analysts on a conference call. So we’re very comfortable.”Morgan Stanley also scaled back its leveraged exposure in the third quarter. “They actually were quite modest marks, given the environment,” Sharon Yeshaya, Morgan Stanley’s chief financial officer, told analysts.

Investment banking revenue more than halved to $1.3 billion, with declines across the bank's advisory, equity and fixed income segments. Morgan Stanley's net revenue in the quarter fell 12% to $13 billion. The bank reported a profit of $2.49 billion, or $1.47 per share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with $3.58 billion, or $1.98 per share, a year earlier. Analysts on average had expected a profit of $1.49 per share and revenues of $13.3 billion, according to Refinitiv IBES data. Morgan Stanley's wealth management business, which tends to generate steady income, was a surprise bright spot, posting a 3% rise in revenue, helped by a 49% jump in net interest income amid rising Federal fund rates.

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