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UBS is taking steps to reduce the impact of the so-called breakaway broker craze on its business.

The collapse of Paramount Pictures' $450-million film financing deal underscores how dramatically the global credit crunch is prompting weary investors and several industry-friendly banks to shy away from a ...

Investors should sell commodities stocks because a slowing global economy will cut demand for raw materials such as copper, nickel and corn, according to strategists at Merrill Lynch & Co.

NEW YORK : Investors bailed out of investment bank stocks Monday as concerns about the credit crisis prompted one analyst to call for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

The American Association of Port Authorities today praised Congress for passing H.R. 802, the Maritime Pollution Prevention Act, which will now be - BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-- --Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

Dow Chemical Co. has agreed to buy Rohm and Haas Co. in an $18.8 billion deal. Dow said Rohm will keep its Philadelphia headquarters and will continue to operate under the Rohm and Haas name, and that Dow will ...

Four years after entering Texas with its purchase of First American Bank in Bryan, Citigroup Inc.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Morgan Stanley, the New York financial giant that employs one of Mayor Daley's nephews, has been picked to help the Cook County Board borrow $150 million to get by until the ...

Posted Jul 9th 2008 11:06AM by Peter Cohan Filed under: Scandals , Morgan Stanley The Wall Street Journal reports that the $330 billion auction rate securities scandal, which since February has frozen the funds ...

Morgan Stanley California Insured Municipal Income Trust today declared monthly income dividends of $.055 per share from tax-free income.

Banks and brokerages began the week lower on the same fears that have been proven toxic since last summer in the ongoing credit crisis.

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities aren't living up to their name for bond investors who say they can't trust the way the U.S. government calculates the rising cost of consumer goods.

Financial stocks slipped lower in midday trade Monday, after renewed concerns about investment banks Merrill Lynch & Co.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld and President Herbert ``Bart'' McDade will forgo 2008 bonuses, the biggest chunk of their pay, after the fourth-largest U.S. securities firm ...

In a move that would raise about $900 million, Morgan Stanley plans to sell about half of its ownership interest in index provider and investment-research firm MSCI Inc., the companies said Wednesday.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. rose in after-market trading after Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on the company and rated the stock at "overweight" June 30, CNBC said after the close of trading.

The credit crisis has caused Wachovia no end of grief. As Warren Buffett would say, this commercial banking stalwart was one of the many companies left swimming naked when the tide went out.

Fidelity Investments of Boston today named Daniel Petrozzo chief information officer.

U.S. manufacturing grew in June and a measure of prices jumped to a 29-year high, underscoring the Federal Reserve's concern that economic growth will be accompanied by faster inflation.

Revealed at a press conference yesterday, the HKMEx is expected to start trading its inaugural fuel oil contract in the first quarter 2009.