The overall news front is in a lull, but financial stocks and the market are going to be closely watched. The FOMC releases its decision on interest rates Tuesday. The bet if…
Constant Contact is now closer to coming public as it has an amended S-1 filing with the SEC, and it has the proposed ticker of "CTCT" on NASDAQ (NASDAQ:CTCT). The company originally…
Douglas A. McIntyre Stocks Tickers: MCO, MHP, XLF, GS, MS, MER, LEH, BSC, C, BAC, JPM, WFC, WB You will have to have a subscription in order to access the full article, but Moody’s has…
Discover Financial Services (DFS-NYSE) has been trading for one trading week now, albeit it is technically a 3 and a half day week. Now that the distribution of these shares is complete…
Stock Tickers: GS, MER, MS, LEH, BSC The raw number of shares that are measured in the short interest in bulge bracket brokerage firm and investment banking stocks did increase, although if…
Stock Tickers: TYC, MS, F, CY, SPWR, TRB, KFT, MO, HB, ASD, EMC, DJ, AA, WY It is always interesting to see how short sellers treat shares of stocks that are undergoing…
Morgan Stanley’s (MS) earnings from continuing operations were actually up 41% to $2.6 billion on a 32% rise in net revenue to $11.5 billion. Underwriting, advisory service, and fixed income sales were…
Douglas A. McIntyre Morgan Stanley (MS-NYSE) is expected to post earnings per share of $1.98 on revenues of $9.85 Billion. If you compare Morgan Stanley shares to last Monday’s close before we had any of…
Stock Tickers: WYN, MAR, BBY, MS On today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer came out discussing Best Buy (BBY-NYSE) ahead of next week’s earnings and said he doesn’t think there…
Stock Tickers: BSC, GS, LEH, MS This Week could have quite easily been titled "Brokerage Firms Earnings Season." We have earnings reports from the major bulge-bracket Wall Street firms this week. On…
In a somewhat surprising move, Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU-NYSE) has decided to jettison its institutional equity research, sales, amnd trading business known as Prudential Equity Group. This will affect equity research operations…
Stock Tickers: MS, GS, BSC, AGE, JEF, RJF, MER, LEH, IAI The short interest for MAY 2007 looks a bit mixed in the brokerage firm stocks from April to May, although on…