Gazprom shares--or at least 49% of them--are about to become free-floating, at which point they will suddenly jumped from nil in the benchmark Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index to 10% of the weighting--the largest single component, likely to edge out even powerhouse Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung .
Changes in a business closely tied to cash equities trading might also indicate Deutsche Bank's determination to make a run at Morgan Stanley's market-leading position.
After his indentured servitude at HP which lasted the five years it took the company to come through with the promised green card Grisha quit and promptly got himself hired for twice as much, as a quant at Morgan Stanley, building market models for mortgage traders.
Today's dreams, and actual excesses, are even more extreme, claimed Barton Biggs, Morgan Stanley's veteran market guru and one of the panellists.
Morgan Stanley has been criticized by market watchers for its role in Facebook's IPO.
Merrill Lynch is following rival Morgan Stanley into the solar energy market.
Meanwhile, Facebook, a company Morgan Stanley helped tap the public market in what quickly became a cautionary tale, was in the spotlight for the opposite reason.
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Some investors faulted Morgan Stanley and Facebook for overloading the market with too many shares.
In an interview with The Economic Times of India, Gerard Minack, Global Developed Market Strategist at Morgan Stanley picks the developing over the developed world.
Ruchir Sharma, director of emerging market equities at Morgan Stanley in New York says that the Brazilan real is too strong and is stifling competition.
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As a result, in using the relative stock price growth and other market measures, Morgan Stanley did not pay its CEO for the windfall gains that were realized during the boom years of 2005 to 2007.
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An index of emerging-market shares compared by Morgan Stanley Capital International has fallen by about 16% from its peak in mid-April.
Turmoil at the top of Morgan Stanley has energized an already strong hiring market, as recruiting firms stumble over each other to lure senior bankers and specialists to rival firms.
Both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs agree that global market movements affect all stocks and that, thanks partly to the launch of the euro, country factors within Europe are losing importance.
After the market closed Thursday, Morgan Stanley announced that co-President ZoeCruzZoe Cruz was retiring, making her the latest high-profile executive on Wall Street to be pushed to the exits in the wake of losses in the credit markets.
As big trading firms Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch push into the market, boutique brokerages like Evolution must deal in complex custom trades, combining pollution credits with other derivatives in deals that help companies mitigate several risks at once.
After the market closed Thursday, Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) announced that co-President Zoe Cruz was retiring, making her the latest high-profile executive on Wall Street to be pushed to the exits in the wake of losses in the credit markets.
The market seemed receptive: Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) was expecting a pack of budget airlines--including EasyJet , Ryanair (nasdaq: RYAAY - news - people ), Go and Buzz --to triple their share of European air travel, to 28%, by 2010.
Karp says his firm has received dozens of calls from Morgan Stanley employees interested in finding out what their market value could be.
Morgan Stanley's proprietary funds have the biggest market share among the five largest broking firms, according to Financial Research Corp, a Boston research firm.
Morgan Stanley had to prop up its money-market funds in September after fears regarding the deteriorating credit market caused clients to pull billions from their accounts.
The firm is said to have offered stay-on bonuses to some key people, especially in areas like prime brokerage where Morgan Stanley wants to hold on to its dominant market share.
Goldman Sachs Group , Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns Cos. dominate the market, particularly for equity prime brokerage, but a handful of commercial banks, including Bank of America and Citigroup , have been chomping at the bit to get bigger.
"It's a question of the BOJ showing that it is being considerate" to JGB market participants, said Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities strategist Katsutoshi Inadome.
Of the 12 heads, five are now in Beijing's Poly Museum, donated to the country by Hong Kong magnate Stanley Ho, who bought them on the private market.
Morgan Stanley's Jonathan Garner, chief Asian and Emerging Market Equity Strategist, concurs that China is experiencing a V-shaped recovery.
The changes mostly affect JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, who make up 97% of the swaps market.
Throwing a damper on it last week, the investing savant Stanley Druckenmiller said that we should not misinterpret the current market as having shades of 1982.
Morgan Stanley's report highlighted the corrosive effects of the credit market turmoil in July and August on bank earnings.
American Express, Citicorp, Merrill Lynch, even Morgan Stanley and Travelers have lost 40% or more of their market value.
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