Morgan Stanley back in black

After three consecutive losses, Morgan Stanley posts its first quarterly profit in a year as its CEO prepares to depart.By Colin Barr, senior writerNE...

Morgan Stanley shares bounce back

Investors aren't sweating the Morgan Stanley case, for now.The investment bank's stock sank early Wednesday on reports that it was facing a probe of i...

Morgan Stanley profit plunges

Morgan Stanley is the latest bank to enter the trading twilight zone.Third-quarter profits fell 67% from a year ago, Morgan Stanley (MS) said Wednesda...

No Morgan Stanley handout, Treasury says

Earlier, I wrote a story on the latest report by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The story drew heavily on the co...

Morgan Stanley suffers another loss

The investment bank posts a big loss and cuts its dividend, but execs say the firm is healthy enough to repay TARP.By Colin BarrMorgan Stanley reporte...

How Morgan Stanley landed a sweeter deal than Goldman Sachs from Uncle Sam

Goldman chose to store up political capital rather than push its luck when it came time to exit TARP.By William D. CohanThe decades-long rivalry betwe...

Goldman 17, Morgan 6

The second quarter was far from perfect, but there was still a lot of easy money for the big Wall Street firms.Goldman (GS), for instance, raked in $1...

Big bonuses are back. Backlash isn't.

Whatever happened to bonus rage?This time last year, there was an uproar over the bonuses being paid at bailed-out AIG (AIG, Fortune 500), and big pay...

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'TARP babies' struggle to pay back government

Banks trying to return bailout funds find doing so isn't quite as quick and easy as they might have hoped, due to problems on how to handle warrants.B...