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...simply responding to calls to stop the slide in certain stocks - Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack put in a personal call to the SEC - isn't necessarily the best policy. Short sellers, as anyone in finance will tell you, often provide very useful early signals about the weakest players in the market. And there is little rigorous data on whether bans on short selling broadly, or specific modifications to how it's conducted (like whether a stock must tick up before a short can go in), truly reduce volatility in markets. Little wonder that many market observers, including former Federal...
...about taking advantage of the current weakness of their American competitors in a fight for international market share. On Sept. 22, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan's largest bank, announced plans to pay up to $9 billion for a 10% to 20% stake in Morgan Stanley, one of two major U.S. investment banks left standing. The announcement capped a frantic few days during which Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack sought a saving dose of capital from Wachovia, a U.S. bank, and the China Investment Corp., Beijing's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, which had already bought 9.9% of Morgan...
...once burned, twice shy" isn't an old Chinese proverb, it probably should be. As Gao Xiqing, the chief investment officer of China's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, meets in New York City this week with Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack to discuss increasing the Chinese government's stake in the venerable - and flailing - investment bank, he bears an obvious burden. Last December, the CIC (the China Investment Corp.) invested $5 billion for a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley (for which the bank must pay CIC a 9% annual dividend until 2010). On paper, that investment is now down...
...supporting China's leading financial institutions at a time of global turmoil," says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. It's another way of saying to CIC's Gao Xiqing, If you come home from New York having increased our stake in Morgan Stanley, it had better be the sweetest deal anyone in Beijing has ever seen...
...Just yesterday came news that one other venerable investment bank, Morgan Stanley, was considering a merger with the commercial bank Wachovia...