Morgan Stanley News

Morgan Stanley announced in a memo to employees on Wednesday that its head of fixed income, Ken deRegt, is leaving the firm.

Limited partners had a chance to praise and lambaste the venture industry during a no-holds-barred panel at the National Venture Capital Association's VentureScape annual meeting last week.

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Morgan Stanley has been sued by an Alabama medical laboratory that claims it steered retirement plan business to ING U.S. Inc and others in exchange for extra fees in an illegal "pay-to-play" scheme.

As a banking adviser to General Motors when he was at Morgan Stanley, Dan Ammann got an upfront view of GM's spiral into bankruptcy in 2009 and subsequent restructuring.

Nearly a year ago, James Gorman sat in a chair on his firm's trading floor, clipped on a microphone and stared into a camera.

Former Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit is buying a stake in India's JM Financial Ltd.

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Third Point LLC, the hedge-fund firm led by Daniel Loeb, exited its position in Morgan Stanley in the first quarter after the shares rallied.

Cabot Credit Management, based in Kings Hill, West Malling, to being acquired by the business founded in 1998 by New York-based Christopher Flowers.

Deutsche Bank AG said on Wednesday it has named Jerry Miller to run the German bank's asset and wealth management business in the Americas.

Michael Mayo , an analyst at CLSA Ltd., raised his share-price estimate on Morgan Stanley to $36 after Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said the firm may reach his profitability target next year.

Morgan Stanley shareholders backed the bank's executive-compensation package after the board cut Chief Executive Officer James Gorman's pay by 7 percent and deferred bonuses for top managers.

Morgan Stanley shareholders approved the securities firm's 2012 executive compensation plan, though by a smaller margin than a year ago.

At the New York company's annual shareholder meeting in Purchase, N.Y., Tuesday, 86.2% of stockholders backed the proposal, down from 94.8% a year earlier.

Chief Executive James Gorman said he hopes the company will deliver its return-on-equity Goals By 2014 to shareholders at the annual meeting in Purchase, New York.

Light, sweet crude in Houston has weakened to a bigger discount to oil in Louisiana and to international benchmark Brent because of shipping constraints.

Asian stocks rose, with the regional benchmark index heading for a second day of gains, as retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly increased last month, boosting the earnings outlook for the region's exporters.

Petrobras, as the state-run oil producer is known, is seeking to sell fixed-rate bonds due in three, five, 10 and 30 years as well as three- and five-year floating-rate bonds, according to a person familiar with the offering.