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That is providing fodder for criticism of ExxonMobil&apos;s purchase of XTO Energy .</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/342638287</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:05:12 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley appoints former Merrill executive (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125bsnu34/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/4666b2ca-e830-11de-8a02-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Morgan Stanley has charged Greg Fleming with turning around the fortunes of its undeperforming asset management business, in a move that marks the return of the former Merrill Lynch executive to Wall Street.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4276516617</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:30:30 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gorman retains Morgan Stanley loyalists (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125h40qjd/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/03e5b9c8-e42a-11de-bed0-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>James Gorman, who will succeed John Mack as chief executive of Morgan Stanley next month, unveiled a series of management changes on Tuesday that reflect the bank&apos;s push to close the gap between its flagship securities business and that of its arch-rival, Goldman Sachs .</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4097305242</guid><pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:55:21 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gorman begins Morgan Stanley reshuffle (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1251qk25b/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/1c281b30-e398-11de-9f4f-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Morgan Stanley &apos;s James Gorman, who will succeed John Mack next month as the bank&apos;s chief executive, is close to unveiling a series of management changes that include shifting the bank&apos;s finance chief to co-head its flagship securities business.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2434433465</guid><pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:50:18 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bonus windfall tax (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125291086/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/2d74df78-e315-11de-b965-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>The bankers won&apos;t move to Zug - there&apos;s no Spearmint Rhino there. Such facile arguments were already set to be tested to destruction in the UK with the looming 50p income tax rate. Now the Labour government is toying with a windfall tax on bonuses too.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/996008411</guid><pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:10:33 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chinese official slams banks over derivatives (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1250qkj9t/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/9d3ce434-e029-11de-8494-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>A senior Chinese official who oversees the country&apos;s largest state-owned enterprises has publicly slammed western investment banks for &quot;maliciously&quot; peddling complicated derivative products that caused huge losses for Chinese companies over the last year.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4037474496</guid><pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:10:15 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drugmakers lift European bourses (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125c871ph/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/72c16dfe-df3b-11de-be8e-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>European drugmakers were in focus on Wednesday after two brokers forecast that the sector would outperform in 2010. While the industry is often viewed as &quot;ultra-defensive&quot;, pharmaceuticals remained one of the most cash-generative and attractively valued sectors, Morgan Stanley said.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1923475033</guid><pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:15:14 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dubai (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125aa8cco/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/cc51f086-dd93-11de-9f8b-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>The panic provoked by last week&apos;s debt standstill request from Dubai World and property arm Nakheel has come full circle. On Monday, when the main Gulf stock markets reopened, Nasdaq Dubai fell more than 7 per cent and the Abu Dhabi stock exchange more than 8 per cent.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3461450742</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:30:25 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Concern over wider UAE exposure (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125krtd0q/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/f28accd4-dd9b-11de-9f8b-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Concerns about the Dubai debt situation continued to weigh on European equities on Monday, with bank stocks the heaviest losers.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1732489455</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:25:27 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Walker review (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1254vaqcp/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/4ce63786-da13-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Sir David Walker&apos;s review of corporate governance in the banking sector deserves a wider application. Take his recommendation - soon to be put on a statutory footing in the Financial Services Bill - that banks should, in an anonymised, banded format, disclose the pay of high earners.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2094622291</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:40:33 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>View of the Day: Improving climate for hedge funds (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125oemg5j/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/ca059c22-d90d-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>The hedge fund sector looks to be going through the early stages of recovery, with industry flows turning positive and redemptions largely normalising to historical levels, says Huw van Steenis, head of banks and financials research at Morgan Stanley .</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1012024516</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:35:31 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thomas Cook leads way lower (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125u8nnn6/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/f9842c8e-d5a7-11de-b80f-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Holiday companies led the way lower on Friday as the FTSE 100 slipped for a fourth consecutive day. Tui Travel and Thomas Cook were under pressure as trading and debt concerns caused Morgan Stanley to turn cautious.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/684703339</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:22 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Regulators inside banks (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125001r3a/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/d659c664-d5e4-11de-b80f-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>&quot;Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself,&quot; say the Laws of Manu. &quot;True happiness is born of self-reliance.&quot; John Mack perhaps needs a little ancient, spiritual wisdom. The outgoing Morgan Stanley boss this week said he loved having hordes of full-time regulators at the bank.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2138264118</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:35:40 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>US defence advances Cobham (at FT.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1253lj8vd/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/c05472a0-d414-11de-990c-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&amp;ft_ref=yahoo1&amp;segid=03058</link><description>Cobham was among the top performers on Wednesday as the FTSE 100 struggled for direction. 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