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...over those of the U.K., and Cameron is continuing that policy. Even as P.M., he will have no real power and will only be able to tinker with peripheral matters. Like his immediate predecessors, he will probably spend much of his time posing on the international stage. Stanley Booton, Somerset, United Kingdom...
...city is now the nation's No. 2 financial center behind New York City. In early September, Bank of America, the behemoth of North Tryon and the largest U.S. bank, swallowed the beleaguered investment firm Merrill Lynch, while Wachovia, its competitor on South Tryon, considered a merger with Morgan Stanley. And while the rest of the country is sinking, Charlotte is soaring, with 28 construction cranes downtown. It's got the nation's least-battered metropolitan-housing market, lowest office-vacancy rates and fastest-growing airport. It hosts the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and the NFL's Carolina Panthers...
...responsibility for the financial system,” he said. Clayton S. Rose, a senior lecturer of business administration at the Business School and the former head of the Global Investment Banking and the Global Equities Divisions at J.P. Morgan, called the regulatory changes at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley “significant.” “The reclassification of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley was not a voluntary exercise,” he said. The Fed and the Treasury forced the changes on both firms as a consequence of providing them with assistance, he said, adding...
...half in value as financial stocks tanked. "The leadership [in Beijing] thinks they got taken and they are determined not to let it happen again," says a Hong Kong investment banker close to CIC. But that does not mean the Chinese aren't interested. CIC bought 9.9% of Morgan Stanley in December for $5.5 billion; last week Gao Xiqing, CIC's chief investment officer, was in New York for talks with Mack about expanding that stake. But buying 10% or more of the investment bank would have required a U.S. government review, a process that would be much easier...
...Jersey university. Harvard refused to disclose the name of the firm that underwrote their outstanding public debt, but the University has had at least two fixed-rate bond issuances in 2008, both announced Jan. 23 at sums of $243 million and $145 million, underwritten by Morgan Stanley, according to data from Bloomberg Finance L.P. At the end of 2007, Harvard held more than $914 million in fixed-rate bonds, according to the annual financial report. In total, Harvard has more than $3.8 billion in bonds and notes payable. Kenneth A. Froot, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School...