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☆ Morgan Stanley has a new innovation chief. Expect more OpenAI-like partnerships.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-02 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementWhen Morgan Stanley and OpenAI announced their blockbuster partnership at the beginning of 2023, it signaled a competitive advantage for the Wall Street bank. Morgan Stanley, since then, has co-developed a handful of generative AI tools with the AI powerhouse for its lucrative wealth-management business. Morgan Stanley is far from the only financial firm using OpenAI. In his new role, Manahan oversees the bank's innovation council, which launched at the beginning of the year. The council is dedicated to identifying the bank's technology focuses.

Persons: Sean Manahan, Morgan Stanley's, —, Morgan Stanley, OpenAI, Andy Saperstein, Jeff McMillan, Manahan, Morgan Stanley execs Organizations: Service, York, Tech, Big Tech, Morgan Locations: Silicon Valley, Manhattan, Manahan, New York

☆ Hotels are leaning into their spookier sides to sell ‘rooms with a boo’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Blane Bachelor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Perhaps unsurprisingly, more and more hotels are happy to show off their spookier side as a result. “They ditched the [premise of], ‘Oh, people may be scared,’ and said, ‘Wow, people will come and I can market it, so we’re a haunted hotel,’” said Melchiorri. The inspiration for Stephen King’s novel-turned-film “The Shining,” the 420-room grande dame, whose imposing facade is nearly as dramatic as its Rocky Mountains backdrop, is arguably the world’s most famous haunted hotel. From a messaging and marketing perspective, hotels should share their ghost stories or spooky lore “in a way that they don’t surprise anyone,” Orr said. “My experience is, whether they will admit it or not, most hotels have something that goes bump in the night,” Hunnings said.

Persons: Brian Hunnings, you’re, “, Anthony Melchiorri, ”, Katherine Orr, Elizabeth Harlow, Stephen King's, Helen H, Richardson, ’ earshot, ’, ’ ”, Stephen King’s, Stephen King Suite, –, Steve Azar, Vincent Alban, Hunnings, ” Hunnings, ” Steven Azar, Gifford, Azar, Don’t, ” Azar, Kumar Sriskandan, ” Orr, chambermaid Sallie White, Orr Organizations: CNN, Red Cliffs, CNN Travel, Hotels of America, Hospitality, Hyatt, Marriott, Denver Post, National Retail Federation, Stanley Film Center, Boston Globe, Cliffs, of Film, Western Heritage, “ Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Alamo Locations: Red, Moab , Utah, Colorado, Estes Park , Colorado, Gifford, Provincetown, Moab, Provincetown , Massachusetts, San Antonio , Texas

☆ Morgan Stanley just met with Nvidia's CEO and came away even more confident in their top pick
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Pia Singh | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Nvidia remains at the forefront of AI innovation, with new opportunities to gain market share, Morgan Stanley said. Analyst Joseph Moore reiterated his overweight rating on the chipmaker and said meetings with Nvidia's CEO and other management reinforced the firm's view that it is the top pick in semiconductors. NVDA YTD mountain Nvidia stock this year. To be sure, even as Morgan Stanley doubles down on its Nvidia bull case, the company's near-term growth story has some skeptics. Shares closed down slightly on Wednesday at $132.65, just short of the stock's closing high of $135.58 met in June.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Joseph Moore, Moore, Nvidia's Blackwell, " Moore, Blackwell, Atif Malik, he's, Katie Stockton Organizations: Nvidia, NVIDIA, Management, Citi

☆ Morgan Stanley just added these 3 safe stocks to their 'buy' list with the market expected to stay choppy
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Morgan Stanley has added three new high-quality defensive stocks to its "Fresh Money Buy List." AdvertisementMorgan Stanley expanded its list of recommended equities with three high-quality stocks, as the bank veer further into defensive positioning. These names could help shield against ongoing macro uncertainty, which Morgan Stanley does not expect will resolve anytime soon. Morgan Stanley holds an Overweight rating on the company, with a price target of $211 per share. (3) Northrop GrummanNOC, the defense and aerospace company, joined Morgan Stanley's list as a premium equity for exposure to industrials.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, —, Consumer Staples, Wilson, Public Service Enterprise Group Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley's Organizations: Service, Federal, Healthcare, Consumer, Public Service Enterprise Group, Northrop Grumman NOC, Verizon, Walmart Locations: Real

☆ Meet the 29-year-old son of a casino billionaire who just took his influencer and esports company public
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Lian Kit Wee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Last Friday, Ho took his company, NIP Group, public on the Nasdaq stock exchange. NIP Group makes money from live streams — both of esports and from third-party influencers — and event production and its esports arm. NIP Group plans to explore esports real estate, digital collectibles, and esports training camps, among other strategies, the company said in a filing. Before the duo cofounded NIP Group, Ho was the chief marketing officer of iDreamsky Games, one of the largest game publishers in China. Though billed as an esports company, NIP Group made the bulk of its revenue last year primarily from managing 36,000 online entertainers — with money coming largely from fees on their live streams.

Persons: —, Mario Ho, Stanley Ho, Ho, NIP Organizations: Service, NIP Group, Nasdaq, SEC, Business, Group, iDreamsky, MIT Sloan School, Macau Esports Federation, MSI Finance Management Company, Bloomberg Locations: Sweden, China, Oslo, Hong Kong, Asia, Macau

☆ Regulators want to know more about how Morgan Stanley vets wealthy clients, like a sanctioned billionaire: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

More federal regulators are probing Morgan Stanley to find out how it vets wealthy clients, per The Wall Street Journal. One client includes a Russian-linked billionaire who was sanctioned by the UK, the Journal reported. AdvertisementMore federal regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, are looking into how Morgan Stanley vets its wealthy clients and their sources of money, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. One such client includes a Russian-linked billionaire who has been sanctioned by the UK, the Journal reported. A spokesperson for Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, —, James Gorman, Morgan, Morgan Stanley's Organizations: Street, SEC, Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, Caribbean ., Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Bloomberg, Regulators, Foreign, Journal, Deutsche Bank, Reuters Locations: Caribbean

☆ Large US homebuilders raise prices as existing home supply remains tight
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Ananta Agarwal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

It is thereby squeezing the pool of existing homes, which are typically more affordable than new construction. Public homebuilders on average have raised prices in about two-thirds of their communities, said BTIG analyst Carl Reichardt. This comes as the pricing gap between existing and new homes has narrowed, following a price appreciation in the resale market. "When the existing home market is seeing a price appreciation, it supports pricing power for new construction." However, as a consequence of recovery in new construction prices since last year, "affordability is close to its worst levels in at least the last three decades," said James Egan, Morgan Stanley housing strategist.

Persons: Andrew Kelly, Carl Reichardt, Matthew Bouley, James Egan, Morgan Stanley, Egan, homebuilders, BTIG's Reichardt, Ananta Agarwal, Shinjini Organizations: Lennar Corporation, REUTERS, Federal Reserve Economic, Lennar, PulteGroup Inc, U.S . Census, National Association of Realtors, Barclays, Thomson Locations: Morristown, Morristown , New Jersey, U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Vietnamese EV maker VinFast gets go ahead for Nasdaq SPAC listing
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Phuong Nguyen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Shareholders of Hong Kong-based Black Spade Acquisition (BSAQ.A), a blank-check company, voted on Thursday to approve the merger with VinFast. VinFast, in a joint statement with Black Spade, said it would list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol VFS "on or around August 15". It leaves VinFast's existing shareholders, including parent company Vingroup and Vuong, Vietnam's richest man, with 99% of shares in the company. "The voting results today are a vote of confidence in VinFast from Black Spade shareholders," VinFast's global head Thuy Le said in the statement. Black Spade was founded by the private investment arm of Lawrence Ho, son of the late gambling mogul Stanley Ho.

Persons: Mike Blake, VinFast, Black Spade, Pham Nhat Vuong, Thuy Le, Nikola Corp, EVs, VinFast's, Vuong, Lawrence Ho, Stanley Ho, Phuong Nguyen, Kirsten Donovan, Susan Fenton Organizations: Los Angeles Auto, REUTERS, U.S, Nasdaq, of Hong, VinFast, Black, Black Spade, Faraday, Nikola, Vingroup, Tesla, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, HANOI, of Hong Kong, VinFast, North Carolina, Black, United States, Haiphong, Vietnam

☆ A key bank stock soars, but Cramer sticks to his discipline
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. Watch Morgan Stanley Bank stocks climbed higher Tuesday, as Club holding Morgan Stanley (MS) delivered an earnings beat. "My conviction is that Morgan Stanley stock goes higher," Jim Cramer said Tuesday. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

Persons: Jim Cramer, Morgan Stanley, Eli Lilly, David Ricks, Jim, Jim Cramer's Organizations: CNBC, Morgan Stanley Bank, Club, Nasdaq, Ford Our automaker, Ford Locations: U.S

☆ Morgan Stanley broadcast the names and faces of its summer analysts in Times Square, and people are mortified
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Morgan Stanley honored its Summer Analysts by broadcasting their faces and names in Times Square. The investment bank beamed the headshots of its newest summer analysts on the screens at their Times Square headquarters, sharing their full names around the building's video boards. "We celebrated their arrival with a tribute in Times Square and an unforgettable experience on the historic Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum." "Go to Times Square," McClintock says in his video, "so you can source through prospective new spouses who will probably be breadwinners in their future working at Morgan Stanley." "If I found out my company was broadcasting me like that I would release another swarm of bees in Times Square," another said.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Benton McClintock, McClintock, shyguylene, Morgan Stanley didn't Organizations: Analysts, Times, Associates, Air & Space Museum Locations: North America

☆ Morgan Stanley broadcasted the names and faces of its summer analysts in Times Square, and people are mortified
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Benton McClintock, McClintock, shyguylene, Morgan Stanley didn't Organizations: Analysts, Times, Associates, Air & Space Museum Locations: North America

☆ Meta shares pop 15% on guidance, sales increase
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg told the world in Oct. 2021 that he was rebranding Facebook to Meta as the company pushes toward the metaverse. Meta shares gained more than 15% in premarket trading Thursday, as analysts and investors digested positive guidance for the upcoming fiscal quarter and an unexpected sales increase for the first quarter of 2023. Meta reported first-quarter earnings per share of $2.20, beating the consensus estimate of $2.03, and revenue of $28.65 billion versus the $27.65 billion expected by analysts. As with other large-cap tech companies, analysts expect that artificial intelligence will be a positive point for Meta. Morgan Stanley holds an overweight rating for Meta and upped its price target from $250 to $300.

☆ Morgan Stanley says these stocks are making improvements on ESG that can also boost returns
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Morgan Stanley honed in on publicly traded companies that are improving on ESG in ways that can boost shareholder returns. "We think ESG rate of change will be a critical focus for investors looking to identify companies that can generate alpha and ESG impact," he said in a note to clients in late 2022. Though he said both approaches to ESG screens can be useful, he specifically looked for companies doing under-the-radar ESG work. Eighty-percent of analysts rate the stock a buy, FactSet data shows. Roughly two-thirds of analysts rate the stock as buy or overweight, and the average price target implies upside of nearly 15%.

☆ Apple set to report earnings after the bell
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Performer Jon Batiste, left, and Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York, US, on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Apple also has the challenge of a strong dollar when sales from other countries make up the majority of the firm's business. Apple's services include revenue from the App Store, subscriptions such as Apple Music, search licensing fees from companies such as Google, hardware warranties and other businesses. "Most investors are aligned that services revenue growth should accelerate" during the December quarter again, wrote Morgan Stanley's Erik Woodring in a note this week.

☆ Apple reports earnings Thursday and all eyes are on iPhone 14 sales
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Apple will report its fourth-quarter earnings for the quarter ended in September after the bell on Thursday. The most important new information will be any details the tech giant offers on how the iPhone 14 series is selling. Apple could also see a boost from better-than-expected sales of iPads and Macs, which have been slowed by parts shortages in recent quarters. However, "most investors are aligned that services revenue growth should accelerate" during the December quarter again, according to Morgan Stanley's Erik Woodring. However, Apple sales appear to have remained strong, according to an analysis of iPhone wait times and third-party estimates of the premium smartphone market.

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