Morgan Stanley’s acquisition of brokerage firm E-Trade has been a long time coming, the investment bank’s chairman and CEO James Gorman told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost on Thursday. “In truth, [conversations] started in 2002,” Gorman said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “I called [E-Trade] back then when I was at Merrill [Lynch] because I was
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James Gorman, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, fixes his jacket during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Morgan Stanley China Summit in Beijing, China, on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Giulia Marchi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs had plenty of chances to make an offer for discount brokerage E-Trade before
Shares of Plug Power are surging, and social media users are weighing in on the stock on popular sites including Reddit, putting it among the ranks of other often discussed and speculative trading names like Tesla and Virgin Galactic. On Wednesday, absent any news such as quarterly earnings results that could conceivably drive the stock
Trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Goldman Sachs sounded the alarm on Wednesday to clients about a possible correction in the stock market, noting investors are underestimating how big of a risk the coronavirus really is. “We believe the greater risk is that the impact of the
A Tesla logo is pictured during the Brussels Motor Show on January 9, 2020 in Brussels . (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images) KENZO TRIBOUILLARD | Getty Images Shares of Tesla are jumping yet again, continuing the stock’s rapid speculative rise this year. The electric automaker’s stock is