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...fund, which had already bought 9.9% of Morgan Stanley last December. MUFG joined the fray over the weekend, sources say, and within days committed to buy a strategic stake, which includes a seat on the Morgan Stanley board. With the U.S. Federal Reserve now compelling both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to operate as commercial rather than investment banks, CEO John Mack sees obvious benefits from a tie-up with the Tokyo giant. "Mitsubishi UFJ would be a valuable partner as we transition to a bank holding company and build our bank services and deposit base," Mack said...
...masterminding Tuesday's $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett showed he still has the touch that has won him plaudits as the world's greatest investor. But a new biography, which will hit bookstores Sept. 29, reveals that in his personal life, the Oracle of Omaha can be something of a wreck...
...weight of history has become too heavy. As the events of the last week unfolded, ad hoc solutions from Bernanke’s Fed and the Treasury, led by the vigorous former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry M. “Hank” Paulson, proved unable to bring lasting calm to the market: Neither lower interest rates, nor greatly expanded liquidity helped thaw frozen credit markets. Even after brokered shotgun weddings like those of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America or Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase, what Professor Kenneth Rogoff once called the “flagship?...
Brook does not believe a Democratic administration - or a Democratic Treasury secretary - could have moved as aggressively to intervene in private markets as has Hank Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs partner. "Because Paulson knows more about financial markets and is a Republican," Brook said, 'he's doing more than a Democratic would have...
...However, analysts warn that the markets aren't immune from further bad news and the uncertainty level is still high. Goldman Sachs in a note to investors this week said that Asian stocks are "getting interestingly cheap" but analysts "certainly do not pretend to have any real clarity on the near-term market outlook." The investment bank said "for now, most investors in Asia will continue to focus more on cutting risk and hedging positions rather than putting on substantial new risk." The wild ride in Asian markets isn't over...