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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority censured and fined four firms a total of $175,500 for municipal and other rule violations, including $55,000 against Morgan Stanley for failing to report municipal and corporate securities transactions in a timely manner.

Nine Greenway, left, is part of the Greenway Plaza complex, which has switched hands as part of Barclays Capital's takeover of Crescent's portfolio.

The move comes as observers begin to scrutinize how a newly reinvigorated Morgan Stanley, rebounding from the financial crisis of late 2008, manages its future relationship with MUFG, its biggest shareholder with a stake of about 20%. Japan's biggest bank acquired that stake for $9 billion in September 2008, when Morgan Stanley was severely ...

Just over two years ago, a Morgan Stanley investment fund acquired Fort Worth-based Crescent Real Estate Equities for $6.5 billion at what turned out to be the top of the market.

Ernest Scheyder and Michael Erman - Reuters Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 11:09AM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov.

SINGAPORE - Reuters Published on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 6:46AM EST A serious escalation in trade or currency disputes between the United States and China could be the biggest risk to global stability over the next few years, a top Morgan Stanley executive said on Friday.

Nov. 19 -- Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack, speaking yesterday at the "Covering the Crisis" panel hosted by Bloomberg News and Vanity Fair in New York, says he appreciates the increased regulation from the Federal Reserve that's come after converting to a bank holding company in the midst of the financial crisis.

Exclusive: AOL Hires Bankers to Sell Off ICQ, as Internet Service Starts to Shed Non-Core Assets AOL has hired a pair of New York investment bankers, Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co., to manage the sale of its ICQ instant-messaging unit.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. may raise as much as 1 trillion yen selling shares and said Morgan Stanley will have greater control of the banksa planned securities joint venture in Japan.

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack is becoming a YouTube sensation. A 26-minute video of a talk he gave on "Leadership in Crisis" at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School last month has garnered more than 18,600 page views and 4.5 stars.

In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Citigroup Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit, right, accompanied by Morgan Stanley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Mack, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Oil prices extended gains above US$79 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after an unexpected drop in U.S. crude supplies suggested demand could be improving.

Ten months ago, President Obama said a time would come for Wall Street to make profits and pay bonuses, but "now's not that time." But it appears that was exactly when Wall Street began to return to profitability.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it is offering to sell, subject to market and other conditions, 5,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement in an underwritten public offering.

The Chinese yuan: friends take a photo in front of a sculpture of a one-hundred yuan banknote in Beijing According to an analysis from Morgan Stanley, the authorities are now seeking to recalibrate the message.

Chinaa s government signaled it rejects interpretations of a central bank report this week as indicating a shift in the nationa s currency policy, according to Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest U.S. securities firm, is hiring Terry Atkinson , the former head of UBS AGa s municipal securities group.

As the number of women having twins has increased, so has the odds of developing a serious pregnancy complication called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome .

U.S. companies are gradually ratcheting up their search for workers, a new Labor Department survey showed, which some economists see as a signal the steep decline in the job market could be nearing an end.

Citigroup is set to relaunch its unit that contain its troubled hedge fund operation after two years of lackluster performance, internal division and unrest among its investors.