Morgan Stanley

CircleSMS Launch Announcement [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 1 minute ago
SEATTLE, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudFish Inc., a Seattle-based software firm, announces the release of CircleSMS, an application for iPhone and iPod Touch. CircleSMS allows users to send unlimited text messages to virtually any phone, new or old, for a single payment of one dollar.

Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico Announces Upcoming Bond Issues [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 hours 42 minutes ago
Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) announced today the following transactions:

Owners Research Group Announces Results of Investor Consensus Study for Leading Financial Institutions: BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS & WFC [Press Release]
Business Wire | 8 hours 49 minutes ago
Owners Research Group today announced the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind survey of major shareholders of six premier U.S. banking institutions.

Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity Bond Fund, Inc. Announces Approval of Reorganization [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 3 hours 3 minutes ago
Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MGB) (the “Fund”) announced today that, at a Special Meeting of Stockholders of the Fund, its stockholders approved the reorganization of the Fund and Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc.(“Emerging Markets Debt”) (the “Reorganization”). Pursuant to the Reorganization, substantially all of the assets and liabilities of the Fund will be transferred to Emerging Markets Debt in exchange for shares of common stock (“common shares”...

Universal City Florida Holding Co. I and Universal City Florida Holding Co. II Announce Closing of Their Previously Announced Tender Offer for Their 8 3/8% Senior Notes Due 2010 and Floating Rate Senior Notes Due 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 hours 29 minutes ago
Universal City Florida Holding Co. I and Universal City Florida Holding Co. II (collectively, “Holdings”) announced today that UCFH I Finance, Inc., UCFH II Finance, Inc. and they (together, the “Issuers”) have completed the cash tender offer for their outstanding 8 3/8% senior notes due 2010 (the “8 3/8% Notes”) and floating rate senior notes due 2010 (the “Floating Rate Notes” and, together with the 8 3/8% Notes, the “Notes”). The tender offer, which commenced on October 23, 2009, expired a...

Universal Orlando Announces Closing of Its Previously Announced Tender Offer for Its 11 3/4% Senior Notes Due 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 hours 28 minutes ago
Universal City Development Partners, Ltd. (d/b/a “Universal Orlando”) announced today that UCDP Finance, Inc. and it (collectively, the “Issuers”), have completed the cash tender offer for their outstanding 11 3/4% senior notes due 2010 (the “Notes”). The tender offer, which commenced on October 23, 2009, expired at 11:59 p.m., prevailing eastern time, on November 20, 2009 (the “Expiration Time”).

The Morgan Stanley High Yield Fund, Inc. Declares Monthly Income Dividend [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 3 hours 3 minutes ago
The Morgan Stanley High Yield Fund, Inc. (NYSE: MSY) declared today a monthly dividend of $0.0450 per share of net investment income.

Ayers Capital Opens Its Doors in Nashville [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 hours 44 minutes ago
Ayers Capital, LLC, announced its opening this week as a new registered investment advisory company providing services in Tennessee. The company is a joint venture between an affiliate of Parsons, Tenn.-based Ayers Asset Management, Inc. and Chicago-based InterOcean Capital, LLC.

MEGA in Leaders Quadrant in Enterprise Architecture Tools Analysis [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 hours 41 minutes ago
MEGA, an industry leader in enterprise architecture (EA) and business process analysis (BPA), is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s November 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools”.

People's United Financial, Inc. to Acquire Financial Federal Corporation [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 hours 16 minutes ago
...time. The receipt of People's United stock by shareholders of Financial Federal is expected to be tax-free. Morgan Stanley acted as exclusive financial advisor to People's United and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP acted as legal counsel...

Industry Experts Discuss Building Investor Confidence and Positioning Investment Funds Industry for Recovery [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 hours 43 minutes ago
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- As investor confidence tentatively returns and the hedge fund sector gears up for recovery, leading international law firm Walkers is hosting a special educational seminar in New York on December 2 to explore key issues currently facing the investment funds industry.

Fiduciary Benchmarks Launches Retirement Readiness Index (RRI) for 21,000 Plans [Press Release]
Business Wire | 9 hours 9 minutes ago
Fiduciary Benchmarks, an industry leading benchmarking firm, and Bdellium, an expert in designing quantitative evaluation systems, today announced the launch of the Retirement Readiness Index (RRI) for 20,000 retirement plans, which includes virtually every plan with more than $10 million in assets.

Barclays Capital Acquires Crescent in Joint Venture with Goff Capital [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 8 hours 34 minutes ago
Barclays Capital today announced that it has formed Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC , a joint venture with Goff Capital, Inc., to acquire Crescent Real Estate Equities Limited Partnership (“Crescent”) from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funding II. Crescent is a real estate investment company that owns and manages over 17 million square feet of premier office space, as well as investments in resort residential developments, luxury hotels and Canyon Ranch®. Terms were not disclosed.

CF Industries Comments on Terra Industries Statements [Press Release]
Business Wire | 11 hours 48 minutes ago
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today commented on statements made by Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE: TRA). CF Industries highlighted the fact that at Terra's annual meeting, Mike Bennett, president and chief executive officer of Terra, stated that Terra’s board of directors would determine a process to get to the best ultimate value for stockholders.

Peet s Coffee & Tea Increases Diedrich Coffee Acquisition Proposal to $32.00 in Cash and Stock, Expresses Confidence in Revised Offer [Press Release]
Business Wire | 11 hours 18 minutes ago
Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEET) announced today that it delivered to the board of directors of Diedrich Coffee, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDRX) on Sunday, November 22, 2009 a proposal to enhance its previously announced offer to acquire Diedrich. Peet’s revised proposal is a cash-and-stock offer valued at $32.00 per share, or a total value of approximately $265 million, based on Peet’s closing stock price of $38.00 on Friday, November 20, 2009. Peet’s enhanced its proposal in response to notific...