Morgan Stanley has cut India's GDP target for 2013 to 6.8% from 7.5%. Chetan Ahya, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, said, “with policy makers continuing to delay action to address the unsustainable bad mix of growth, we now think that GDP growth is ...

http://www.yourmoneysite.com/news/2012/may/morgan-stanley-cuts-inidas-gdp-forecast-for-2013-to-68.html

NEW YORK – “In the future, countries will be judged on their own performance and not those of economic blocs,” says Ruchir Sharma head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley in New York. In an interview with Moneyweb, Sharma, whose new book, ...

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page295043?oid=569649&sn=2009%20Detail

O) underwriter Morgan Stanley (MS.N) took a bet earlier this week when it increased the size of the social networking firm's $16 billion initial public offering and it boosted the price. Thanks to massive hype surrounding Facebook's historic public ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-facebook-morgan-stanley-idUSBRE84I01620120519

By Jennifer Hoyt Cummings and Ashley Lau | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Santa - or scrooge - has come early for advisers at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Advisers at the two firms have started to find out how many Facebook IPO ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-facebook-adviser-allocation-idUSBRE84G15Z20120517

Morgan Stanley is having a worse one in terms of its stock performance. Since Monday shares of Morgan Stanley have dropped 9.3%. Today Morgan shares fell 4.3% to close at $13.54–a level not seen since November. JPM shares have sunk over 3.4% since ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/05/16/morgan-stanley-is-having-a-worse-week-than-jpmorgan-heres-why/

By Brett Philbin and Aaron Lucchetti PURCHASE, NY (Dow Jones)--Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement descended upon Morgan Stanley's (MS) annual meeting Tuesday, pressing Chairman and Executive James Gorman with a slew of questions about Wall ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120515-713860.html

By Seoul Bureau SEOUL -(MarketWatch)- Morgan Stanley is conducting preliminary due diligence on Korea Savings Bank ahead of a possible takeover, on expectations that the local property sector is on the road to recovery after recent weakness, ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/morgan-stanley-reportedly-mulls-korean-savings-buy-2012-05-14

By DAVID REILLY JP Morgan Chase shot itself in the foot with a $2 billion trading loss. But bank chief James Dimon's misery will be felt across Wall Street. Chief among firms that could suffer collateral damage: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577402393455450220.html

By Brett Philbin Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--As a potential credit-rating downgrade draws closer, Morgan Stanley (MS) Chairman and Chief Executive James Gorman may have a few cards up his sleeve, but Wall Street isn't sure if it's a ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120511-710273.html

By Jenny Strasburg In 2010, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) helped Zoe Cruz, the co-president pushed out of the firm three years earlier, launch a hedge fund by writing her a $20 million check and expressing willingness to pour in more money later.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/morgan-stanley-bailed-on-hedge-fund-firm-wsj-2012-05-10

Morgan Stanley shares Morgan Stanley shares now trade at just 6.5 times estimated 2013 earnings, compared to Citigroup's Morgan Stanley also trades at just 63 percent of tangible book value, versus 62 percent for both Bank of America and Citigroup.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47357488

By EVELYN M. RUSLI Noah Berger/Bloomberg NewsMichael Grimes, the leader of Morgan Stanley's office in Menlo Park, Calif. The firm is the lead underwriter on Facebook's initial public offering. Silicon Valley doesn't have much love for Wall Street, ...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/morgan-stanleys-michael-grimes-is-where-money-and-tech-meet/

May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley boosted estimates for collateral and termination payments it would have to post to counterparties if its credit rating is reduced as Moody's Investors Service considers industrywide downgrades.

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Japan International Cooperation Agency hired Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (8411), Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. for a sale of 10- and 20-year bonds next month, according to a faxed statement from ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/japan-international-cooperation-agency-hires-banks-for-bond-sale.html

NEW YORK, May 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Morgan Stanley Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. (NYSE:FFD) (the "Fund") announced that, after considering the recommendation of the Fund's investment adviser, the Board of Directors of the Fund (the ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/morgan-stanley-frontier-emerging-markets-fund-inc-announces-intention-to-convert-to-an-open-end-fund-2012-05-04

By Michael J. Moore on May 03, 2012 Morgan Stanley (MS) (MS) is likely to face a two-level downgrade of its credit rating from Moody's Investors Service in the next two months, said Donald Jones, a Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. credit analyst.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-03/morgan-stanley-two-level-cut-seen-as-most-likely-by-sterne-agee

Morgan Stanley (MS) hired Eric Heaton, Deutsche Bank AG (DBK)'s head of investment banking for financial services companies in the Americas, according to a person familiar with the matter. Heaton will join Morgan Stanley's wealth management business in ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/morgan-stanley-s-fleming-is-said-to-lure-heaton-for-wealth-unit.html

Citigroup Inc. (C), Morgan Stanley, UBS AG (UBSN) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) agreed to pay a combined $9.1 million to settle regulatory claims they failed to adequately supervise the sale of leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds in 2008 and 2009 ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/finra-fines-citigroup-morgan-stanley-over-leveraged-etf-sales.html

JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley's executive compensation packages received endorsements from ISS Proxy Services, the firm whose negative recommendation helped sink a similar plan at Citigroup. JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley displayed "reasonable ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/30/BU7C1OB568.DTL

Morgan Stanley (MS) may take control of Citypoint, a 36-story tower in London's financial district, after Beacon Capital Partners Inc. failed to agree a rescue plan, the Sunday Times reported without saying where it got the information.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-29/morgan-stanley-may-seize-citypoint-tower-sunday-times-reports.html

NEW YORK, Apr 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed 12 classes of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital I Trust commercial mortgage pass through certificates, series 2002-IQ2. A detailed list of the ratings follows at the end of this ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fitch-affirms-morgan-stanley-dean-witter-capital-i-trust-2002-iq2-2012-04-27

Morgan Stanley (MS)'s fixed-income trading unit will struggle if Moody's Investors Service follows through with a potential three-level downgrade, according to Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Such a reduction may slice 30 percent ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-26/morgan-stanley-downgrade-may-hurt-debt-unit-hintz-says.html

By PETER LATTMAN One of Morgan Stanley's former real estate executives in China pleaded guilty on Wednesday to violating federal anticorruption laws as the American government continues to crack down on citizens who commit fraud and bribery abroad.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/morgan-stanley-executive-pleads-guilty-to-violating-anticorruption-laws/

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has mandated UBS AG (UBS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) as lead bankers to join Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS) on the more than US$2.5 billion initial public offering in Singapore of its Formula ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120424-722682.html

By Wallace Witkowski and Greg Morcroft, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley led US financial stocks lower on Monday as political upheaval in Europe added to economic pressures in the region.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/b-of-a-citi-fare-badly-in-weak-financial-sector-2012-04-23?link=MW_latest_news