Update 1: Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns crashed finance sector
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Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest US securities firm, on Wednesday reported lower-than-expected third-quarter profit on lower fees from trading stocks and bonds.
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Morgan Stanley MWD.N and Bear  Stearns Cos. Inc. BSC.N, two of Wall Street's biggest  securities firms, on Tuesday said their fourth-quarter profits  rose as a flurry of mergers and a year-end stock rally boosted  investment banking fees.
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US stock markets fall sharply as the dollar weakens further and Morgan Stanley discloses sub-prime related losses.
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Investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. , one of the nation's largest mortgage bond underwriters, said on Thursday quarterly earnings fell by a third as trouble in the mortgage market hurt bond trading revenue and it wrote down assets at a stock trading venture.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns posted drops in quarterly profit yesterday, surprising some investors one day after two other big investment banks reported a rise in earnings.
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Bear Stearns Co Inc  posted a much bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, capping a fiscal year when the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank took a beating on bad bets on risky subprime mortgages.
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Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns said on Wednesday that their third-quarter earnings fell, the first declines for the investment banks in more than a year.
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Investment bank misses estimates as trading income plunges, other units fail to pick up the slack. By Rob Cox, Breakingviews. LONDON (Breakingviews) - Morgan Stanley is the first to slip.
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Stock index futures fell on Wednesday  as news that deep losses on subprime mortgage bonds have left  two Bear Stearns hedge funds almost worthless further worried  investors already edgy after lackluster results from Intel  Corp.  and Yahoo Inc.
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Profits at US bank Bear Stearns fall 61% as a result of the credit crisis and exposure to sub-prime debt.
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Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest US securities firm, said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter profit tumbled 34 percent, falling short of estimates, as bond trading plunged.
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Two Wall Street investment banks had dramatically different success in weathering market turbulence triggered by a subprime mortgage meltdown, as results at Goldman Sachs Group Inc  easily exceeded expectations while those at Bear Stearns Cos Inc  fell far short.
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Morgan Stanley (MWD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , two of Wall Street&#39;s biggest
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Two Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge  funds that invested heavily in securities backed by subprime  mortgage loans are close to being shut down as a rescue plan is  falling apart, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Wednesday.
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Stocks were knocked lower on Wednesday  after a U.S. government review questioned home finance company  Fannie Mae's FNM.N accounting methods, while  investment bank  Morgan Stanley MWD.N reported a drop in quarterly profit.
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China has agreed to pump $5 billion into Morgan Stanley as the U.S. investment bank reported a stunning fourth-quarter loss fueled by $9.4 billion of losses in subprime mortgages and other assets.
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Bear Stearns Cos. said yesterday its profit plunged 62 percent in the third quarter as turbulence in the debt market and wrong-way bets on mortgages crunched the investment bank's credit portfolio and bond business.