{"id":8641,"date":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"morgan-stanley-weighing-possible-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/morgan-stanley-weighing-possible-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley weighing possible merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Singapore &#8211; U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley is weighing whether it should remain independent or merge with a bank, given the recent turbulence in the company&#8217;s share price, broadcaster CNBC reported on Wednesday.       <\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley officials were not in merger talks as of late Tuesday, CNBC said, citing unnamed people close to the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But senior people at Morgan concede that further zig-zags in the company&#8217;s stock price could and possibly will force the company to change course and seek a merger partner, probably a well capitalized bank,&quot; CNBC reported on its Website.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley shares closed down 10.8 percent at $28.70 on Tuesday, having fallen 46 percent so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley officials in Hong Kong declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/394935392\" \/><br \/>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/394935392\/idUKGRI72424820080917\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Singapore &#8211; U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley is weighing whether it should remain independent or merge with a bank, given the recent turbulence in the company&#8217;s share price, broadcaster CNBC reported on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley officials were not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1362,646,810,1442,117,91,421,885,901,848,699],"class_list":["post-8641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-return","tag-arthur-sulzberger","tag-capital-group","tag-clientele","tag-investment-arm","tag-luxembourg","tag-nutmeg","tag-rebound","tag-tide","tag-united-airlines","tag-volatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}