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Morgan Stanley Makes Sales, Trading Hiring Push
8/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Morgan Stanley is in a hiring push that will add as many as 400 trading and sales positions as it tries to revive profits in areas such as fixed-income trading, emerging markets and foreign exchange, according to people familiar with the situation. Walid Chammah, co-president of the Wall Street firm, said in an internal meeting last month that the hiring plan is a "strategy of rebalancing and repositioning" fixed-income and equities trading, according to these people. The new hires will be split evenly between both sides. For full story http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125079605522047233.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Joe Bel Bruno, Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125079605522047233.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
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Morgan Stanley Makes Sales, Trading Hiring Push
8/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Morgan Stanley is in a hiring push that will add as many as 400 trading and sales positions as it tries to revive profits in areas such as fixed-income trading, emerging markets and foreign exchange, according to people familiar with the situation. Walid Chammah, co-president of the Wall Street firm, said in an internal meeting last month that the hiring plan is a "strategy of rebalancing and repositioning" fixed-income and equities trading, according to these people. The new hires will be split evenly between both sides. For full story http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125079605522047233.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Joe Bel Bruno, Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125079605522047233.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
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