Morgan Stanley (MS)

[giveit2me]

because of oil price predictions like todays, MS pps is $24.

[Timothy Smith]

Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) agrees to buy Morgan Stanley's (NYSE:MS) European gas and power trading portfolio for an undisclosed sum.

[Timothy Smith]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) confirms the sale of its Global Oil Merchanting unit of its commodities division, to Castleton Commodities International; financial terms are not disclosed, but FT reports the purchase price is at least $1B.

[Joe89]

Sellers coming in after lunch, need to see the action closer to $36 which is the lower end of the channel we are on.

[Joe89]

$37 premarket, pretty much just $36 to $38 as the channel to get through here.

[Charlie1988]

Im mad it didnt go up at least 1.50

[Joe89]

Not too bad of a day, but the bulls lost their momentum this morning.

This market needs financials like MS to help push higher levels, if they start failing to make new highs, then the broader market is possibly due for some pull back.

[Joe89]

That morning premarket move fizzled, now trading +1.2%, if this closes red it will be an ugly technical move.

[Joe89]

+2.4% premarket, strong open

[Joe89]

1Q15 PR: Diluted EPS $1.18 vs. $0.74 in 1Q14. As on March 31, 2015, Company had approx. 2Bil shares outstanding.

[Joe89]

Beat estimates! of 78c with an 85c beat above revenues forecasts.

[AverageJoe]

Jumped in Low 30's, we will go 45's in a month

[jimmybob]

Morgan Stanley Citigroup gaining share in capital markets, says Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo says that Morgan Stanley (MS) has shown very positive capital market share gains relative to its large bank peers, while Citigroup (C) has improved its share nearly as much. The firm raised its 2014 EPS estimate for Morgan Stanley to $3.63 from $3 to reflect a tax benefit. It thinks that Citi has several other positive catalysts. Wells keeps an Outperform rating on Citi and a Market Perform rating on Morgan Stanley

[OGSPECULATOR]

Signal confirmed!

[Bigrick]

Rumors of hostile take over. Berkshire interested $MS @ $45 per share to become majority holder.

[realfast95]

MS Morgan Stanley posts earnings of 72 cents a share vs. 59 cents estimate

[OGSPECULATOR]

Load and hold$$$

[ernie44]

MORGAN STANLEY IS PAINTING A LOT OF 100'S ALL WEEK

UNDER WATER MAYBE OUT OF GAS http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/FCX/station/

[agch44]

Still a bargain...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/01/23/morgan-stanleys-stock-is-still-a-bargain-today

[OGSPECULATOR]

Whale buyer grabs 1.2 million shares today!!!$$$

[realfast95]

31.11 breakout target 32.74

[ECole]

Q3 earnings transcript


http://www.earningsimpact.com/Transcript/84036/MS/Morgan-Stanley---Q3-2013-Earnings-Call

[LasNubes]

Jumped in here yesterday at 29.32

GLTA

[faxedreceipts]

Options expiring today made this jump back and forth. Perhaps Monday will bring the continuation and climb to 30 plus where it belongs? Amazing that this company isn't 40 or way above. The analyst picking at ROE is absurd. Every aspect of the company is improving and MS outperformed their competion in many financial metrics.

[detearing]

Got back in yesterday...see what this can do...

[expert_trader]

MS will close around 30.00+ today. Just getting the sellers off our shoulders after news and earnings release. Expect a big power hour.

[jump1]

Every segment beat on revenue, and margins also surprised to the upside. This should lead to a re-rating in the shares and close the valuation discount to its largest competitor, Goldman Sachs. Earnings at the core level were $0.46 a share, compared with the $0.39 consensus, and net revenue (excluding the benefits from debt valuation adjustment) were $8.1 billion and rose 7% year over year from the $7.5 billion in the third quarter of 2012

[JLHammer]

BUY BUY BUY! $MS

[ECole]

Quick Presentation of Live earnings call- Highlights

MS Earnings from continuing operations per diluted share excluding DVA was $0.37 after preferred dividends.
Read Management Presentation part..
http://www.earningsimpact.com/index.aspx

[Emerging Growth]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) recently released research that suggests it could take years for unemployment to reach a level that will prompt the Fed to finally raise rates. In December the Federal Open Market Committee established a rate of 6.5% as the target at which it will begin raising the Fed funds rate (currently 0 to 0.25%). The middle-of-the-road scenario, which assumes no change in the labor force participation rate (now 63.6%) and average job creation of 150,000 monthly, projects 6.58 years.

There are multiple variables, of course. A falling participation rate—which ironically enough would typically be prompted by a worsening economy—could bring unemployment to 6.5% sooner, assuming poorer conditions did not simultaneously crush job creation. Conversely, a rise in the participation rate back to the 2012 level of 64.2% would turn that 6.5 year timeline into 16 years if there were no corresponding improvement in job creation. The Fed’s own figures show unemployment falling by 0.22% annually if GDP growth is in the 2.25% to 2.75% range, which also puts 6.5% between five and six years away.

A predictable interest rate environment has many implications, but we’re going to examine what it means for a very capital-intensive industry: utilities. Aside from the direct benefit of low rates for financing equipment upgrades and expansion, with paltry rates on most fixed income investments a solid, dividend-paying sector like utilities becomes more attractive.

One candidate is Chesapeake Utilities Corp. (NYSE:CPK), not to be confused with the much larger Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK). Chesapeake Utilities is engaged in natural gas and some electric distribution up and down the Eastern Seaboard from Delaware to Florida, and also operates natural gas pipelines in the Northeast. With low long-term natural gas prices, the lion’s share of new electrical generation is based on natural gas, and there is an opportunity to replace higher-priced home heating options like heating oil with cheaper and more environmentally friendly gas.

Chesapeake is now at a P/E of 17.1, slightly below the 18.5 of its peer group. What is striking is that its long-term debt to equity is 0.4 compared to 0.8 for its peer group and 1.1 for the industry. This means the company has the elbow room to accomplish infrastructure upgrades or expansion with inexpensive capital.

At this point the stock is only 2.15% off its 52-week high, its last close at 47.87, and for most of the first half of 2012 it traded in a range between 40 and 43. Consequently, it will need to come down slightly to be a bargain. Chesapeake is paying a 0.365 quarterly dividend.

Water is an increasingly contested resource in many parts of the world and even the U.S., particularly the West. One company providing water to what are essentially captive markets is Consolidated Water Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ:CWCO). Consolidated operates in Belize, the Bahamas, the Caymans, and the British Virgin Islands, providing retail and commercial water supplies with seawater desalinization plants. Thomson Reuters upgraded the stock on January 11, but it is still at a 4 out of 10 (the low end of neutral); Second Opinion upgraded Consolidated to Long on January 14.

At this point the stock is only 6.06% off its 52-week high but 27.31% off its 52-week low, so based on price performance over the trailing twelve months, it seems likely that Consolidated will head lower soon, at which point it will become a better buy. Its P/E of 19.2 is slightly below the industry average of 20.8, but more significantly, like Chesapeake Consolidated has minimal debt at this time. Total debt to equity is only 0.1 versus 3.3 for its peers, which means it is well-positioned to take advantage of low capital market rates.

Utilities in general have suffered from the weak housing market, but for companies like these that have low long-term debt ratios the current low-cost capital market offers an opportunity. Should either of them decide to leverage this opportunity, such a move would make them even more attractive.

See the full story and more here... http://emerginggrowth.com/investing_today/years-of-low-interest-rates-ahead-check-out-dividend-paying-utilities/01/24/2013

[DevilDolphin]

Glad I bought in last week! Great quarter.. Should be a great 2013!

[altruism]

MS killing it today great 4th Q

[edlaws]

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners – the global infrastructure fund of Morgan Stanley (MS - Analyst Report) – along with other investors has invested $150 million in Zhaoheng Hydropower Holdings Ltd. – a Chinese hydropower firm. The global infrastructure fund specializes in making diverse investments for infrastructural developments on behalf of Morgan Stanley.

[NYBob]

Morgan Stanley brokers chafe at new system's glitches
Insight:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/03/us-morganstanley-brokerage-idUSBRE8721JW20120803

GOLD gone east 40 - 60 metric tons ? -
Rothschild shipped the GOLD to new vaults in China ?
Au robbed by $trillions in bailouts etc. from the US People?

http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/podcast/4153/holiday-treat-grilled-jackass

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BANKSTERS Can STEAL Pensions, The FEDERALl Court Ruling! ECONOMIC CRISIS!

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God Bless


Beware: stay out of banksters ETFs -

[IPO$]

I'm sure the government is watching them. It is too obvious.

[the cork]

Get Your Money Out of Morgan Stanley—Fast!
Posted by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul on Aug 27, 2012 |

With the stock price of Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) inches from its Armageddon lows of Oct. 2008, whispers of the imminent overnight collapse of this U.S. broker-dealer begin to surface. Client funds, again, are at risk.

“I’m hearing rumors that another major financial house is going to implode,” says TruNews host Rick Wiles. In fact, the name I’ve been given is Morgan Stanley . . .

“It’s going to be put on the sacrificial alter by the financial elite.”

Beyond the evidence of a teetering stock price—Morgan Stanley’s troubles may never go away—leading to bankruptcy, if traders can glean anything from the financial activities of front-running insider George Soros, the man who warned in Jun. 2010 that the global financial crisis has entered “act II.”

According to Soros’ 13-F filing (ending Jun. 30) with the SEC, the billionaire financier reported that his fund sold nearly all shares of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup—not paring back his holdings of financials, but completely dumping them.

And, as if to yell that the F.I.R.E economy is, indeed, on fire, the 82-year-old Soros also reports loading up on gold—adding a bit of poetry to Charlie Munger’s bizarre comment (1) in reference to investors who seek out gold in times of trouble.

Well, Soros’ act II has yet to crescendo to its tragic end, but “when a major global player with direct ties to the White House, Wall Street, and the banking system starts off-loading stocks and starts stacking gold, it suggests a very serious market move is set to happen,” says blogger Mac Slavo.

Adding to the speculation of a Morgan Stanley collapse, Bloomberg coincidentally pens an article on Aug. 23—the following day of the TruNews broadcast—in which the author Bradley Keoun recounts the dark days of Morgan Stanley at the height of act I of the financial crisis in 2008.

“At the peak of Morgan Stanley’s Fed borrowings, on Sept. 29, 2008, the firm reported that liquidity was ‘strong,’ without mentioning how dependent its cash stores had become on the government lifeline. . .” states Keoun.

“Neither Morgan Stanley nor its competitors in prime brokerage – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Citigroup and Credit Suisse Group AG – disclose the size of their hedge-fund balances, leaving shareholders dependent on regulators who previously failed to rein in the risks. [Emphasis added]
But here’s where strong advice from Trends Research Institute founder Gerald Celente and former commodities broker Ann Barnhardt should be heeded. Both consumer-friendly analysts implore investors and savers, alike, to withdraw from the financial system, warning that allocated brokerage accounts are not truly allocated. (2)

Bloomberg’s Keoun goes on to quote a former Financial Accounting Standard Board (F.A.S.B) member Adam Hurwich, who states, “It [Morgan Stanley's balance sheet] remains a black box,” referring to Morgan’s disclosure of whether allocated accounts at the firm have been re-hypothicated.

Regulators were asleep at the switch in the cases of MF Global and PFG Best, both filing bankruptcy post 2008, taking customer funds with them to the financial grave. Why not Morgan Stanley?
“They don’t give you the information to be able to decipher whether they have changed anything,” adds Hurwich.
“Prime brokerage was presumed to be a pretty secure business, where the funding was not actually part of the liquidity of the bank,” Bloomberg quotes Frank Suozzo, president of FXS Capital LLC. “So if clients pulled their money out, the view was that money had not been lent out, so the cash would have been sitting there able to hand over. It turns out that that was not entirely correct.”

As the financial community found out in the case of MF Global, “prime brokers were able to reuse clients’ assets to raise cash for their own activities,” according to the financial crisis commission report, published Jan. 2011.

That’s a big red flag for investors to close their accounts with their brokerage firm—fast, especially accounts held at Morgan Stanley.

Why an establishment cheerleader such as Michael Bloomberg would allow an article which serves to remind investors of Morgan Stanley’s financial problems at this time may lend some credence to Rick Wile’s sources, who hear chatter about the impending doom of Morgan Stanley.

Like financial systems that could not be saved in the past, the banks must be then consolidated—that done, of course, after the bankruptcy, where the small investor gets wiped out and the ‘system’ acquires the remaining performing assets of the carcass.
The timing of the Bloomberg article is no coincidence. Michael Bloomberg is only doing his part for the global banking cartel by tipping off that Morgan Stanley is ready for the “sacrificial alter.” Get your money out.


Read more: http://www.beaconequity.com/get-your-money-out-of-morgan-stanley-fast-2012-08-27/#ixzz24sOzYLTh

[BottomBounce]

Morgan Stanley $MS owns 9,338,002 shares of Molycorp $MCP

[carl2591]

what a piece of crap this has turned out to be. be glad when i get back to 19 so i can bail the h3ll out..

[Penny Roger$]

~ Monday! $MS ~ Q2 Earnings alerted as posted, pending or coming soon! In Charts and Links Below!

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[MWM]

Today and tomorrow might be very good to MS imo, bounce time...

[Carna4z]

loaded @ 12.88, thank you!!!

[MiamiGent]

MS Morgan Stanley to adjust prices on Facebook trades
PROVIDED BY Reuters - 1:19 PM 05/23/2012
By Joseph A. Giannone

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NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS) told brokers on Wednesday it is reviewing every Facebook Inc (FB) trade and will make price adjustments for retail customers who paid too much during the social network company's debut last week, according to an internal memo.

Morgan Stanley (MS), the lead underwriter of Facebook's (FB) initial public offering on Friday, in the memo also said "many" of the first-day trades have now been processed and are appearing in client accounts. The company did not specify how much it expected to pay in total price adjustments.

"All orders are currently being reviewed for best execution pricing," the memo, which was obtained by Reuters, said. "We expect there will be a number of price adjustments. The largest adjustments will be processed first over the next several days and the remaining adjustments will be completed as quickly and as thoroughly as possible."

A "very limited number of orders" are still pending, but Morgan Stanley (MS) told its more than 17,000 brokers that it expects to have remaining orders resolved and booked Wednesday.

Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed the contents of the memo but declined to elaborate.

Facebook's (FB) highly anticipated market debut Friday was beset by trading glitches on the Nasdaq s tock market. T he opening of trading in the social networking company's new shares was delayed by about 30 minutes. Shares priced by underwriters at $38 briefly rose to $45 in early trading but then fell and ended on Friday little changed.

A significant number of investors at Morgan Stanley (MS) and other brokerages were left in limbo - some as late as Tuesday - with trade orders that were not processed. (Reporting By Joseph A. Giannone; Editing by Walden Siew and Carol Bishopric)

[MWM]

MS looks like a lot of support here at $13...

[MWM]

MS I think she bounces off this $13.95 level...

[lucmariepierre]

i should have bought this company among other

[Sergey777]

Morgan Stanley Reports First Quarter 2012

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Morgan Stanley (MS 16.95 ?-1.51%) (NYSE: MS) today reported net revenues of $6.9 billion for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012 compared with $7.6 billion a year ago. For the current quarter, the loss from continuing operations applicable to Morgan Stanley was $78 million, or a loss of $0.05 per diluted share compared with income of $984 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, for the same period a year ago.

Technical Analysis Morgan Stanley $MS short target 13.82
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[AlanC]

Broker Bankrupted In Kangaroo Court
13 Mar 2012 10:56 EDT
By Al LewisDow Jones via eFXnews

Mark Mensack joined Morgan Stanley (MS) in 2008, landing an $873,000 signing bonus, but now he's in personal bankruptcy and just moments away from losing his home in Cherry Hill, N.J.

He's turning 50. He's got a wife and three kids. And this is where he's landed after losing an arbitration with his former employer before his industry's self-regulating body, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Mensack claimed he was forced to leave Morgan Stanley after he accused the firm of taking hidden fees from its retirement-account customers. In July, a Finra panel ruled against this would-be whistleblower and ordered him to pay Morgan Stanley $1.2 million, essentially demanding most of his bonus back after quitting, plus interest and legal fees.

It is extraordinarily difficult to successfully appeal a Finra ruling. It is even more difficult when Finra mysteriously loses several hours of recorded testimony.

Mensack told me that when his attorney requested recordings for an appeal, Finra wouldn't produce them. He said he eventually learned eight of about 18 hours of testimony from his case were missing. He sent me audio files that were inexplicably cut off at the end. He also showed me a Jan. 13 letter that Finra regional director Katherine Bayer wrote to his attorney. It said:

"Finra is required to make a...recording of every hearing. ...Unfortunately, portions of testimony returned to us by the panel are missing. ...I apologize for this and any perceived miscommunications from the Finra staff about the status of the recordings. ...I understand Mr. Mensack's disappointment with the arbitrator's decision. However, Finra has no authority to reverse the award."

A Finra spokeswoman declined to comment on the case.

A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman emailed me a prepared statement, calling Mensack's claims against the firm baseless:

"He had a full opportunity to present them, represented by counsel, in an extensive formal hearing. The arbitration panel gave them fair consideration and rejected them in their entirety. ...Having failed in arbitration, he is now attempting to prosecute his case in the media."

Mensack wanted to prosecute his case in a New Jersey state court, where he initially filed a whistleblower's lawsuit. But Morgan Stanley attorneys successfully argued in 2010 that his claims should be heard before Finra--an industry friendly body that sometimes displays little regard for evidence.

In October, the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered Finra to hire an outside consultant to fix a problem it has producing documents. The SEC ruled that on Aug. 7, 2008, Finra's Kansas City office altered "three records of staff meeting minutes just hours before producing them to the SEC inspection staff, making the documents inaccurate and incomplete."

To me, this is the very definition of a kangaroo court: An alleged hall of justice that loses--and even tampers with--key records in its leaps of judgment. What kind of organization shuts down a whistleblower's claims, bankrupts him with a $1.2 million order and then can't find the testimony behind its damning decision?

Mensack is fond of quoting Harry Markopolos, who was famously ignored when he tried to blow the whistle on Bernie Madoff. Two words Markopolos has called Finra: "Very corrupt." Markopolos pointed out in Congressional testimony that Madoff himself was chairman, and his brother Peter vice chairman, of Finra's predecessor organization.

At the very least, Finra has proven absurd the argument that an industry can police itself.

Mensack has a long list of accusations against Morgan Stanley and Finra, from perjury and fabricating evidence to ethics violations and incompetence. He says the missing arbitration recordings would help prove these claims.

Instead, he will go down in history is an example of what happens in the financial industry if you spot something you think is wrong and try to drag it out in the open.

"My No. 1 concern," Mensack said, "is not losing my house."

Unfortunately, he can't stop taking the word "fiduciary" literally. A commissioned U.S. Army officer, he taught philosophy and ethics at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. He is also an Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst and continues to work as an independent fiduciary consultant.

Mensack claims that when he went to work at Morgan Stanley, he discovered the firm, and companies it partners with on retirement accounts, were double-dipping into a $4 billion pool of 401(k) assets. He says he first thought it was an innocent gaffe by people who didn't understand their fiduciary responsibilities. But when he ran his concerns up the ranks, he says he was retaliated against and ultimately forced to leave.

"For me to work at Morgan Stanley, and sell 401(k) products, I would have had to lie to people," he said. "That would have put me in a fiduciary breach. I can't do that. ...There is no amount of money that is going to make me knowingly lie to people. ...And Morgan Stanley never gave me a way out."

Copyright (c) 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
http://www.efxnews.com/story/11131/broker-bankrupted-kangaroo-court

[gixxer11]

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[canestsal]

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SELL!

[gixxer11]

Heads up going down !! After hrs