Morgan Stanley will handle offering.

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Facebook Prepares $5B IPO: Report

Some banks, using credit-default swaps, are more hedged than others against the possibility of a debt cascade in Europe.

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DealBook: U.S. Banks Tally Their Exposure to Europe’s Debt Maelstrom

The disclosure of stock awards to Wall Street’s top tier comes as lower-level employees are finding out that their own bonuses will be much smaller than a year ago.

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DealBook: Bad Year for Wall Street Not Reflected in Chiefs’ Pay

With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results, Wall Street’s moneymakers are doubting they will ever get back to their high-rolling ways.

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DealBook: New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained

The start-up boom means there are more freshly minted millionaires looking to manage their wealth. And Wall Street firms are happy to help, for a fee.

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DealBook: Wall Street Jostles to Help Silicon Valley Manage Newfound Wealth

Financial firms are preparing to dole out huge amounts of stock at depressed prices, the value of which could rise substantially in a few years.

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DealBook: Modest Bonus Year on Wall St., but Stock Could Yield Fortunes

Zynga, the online gaming company, has set the price range for its initial public offering at $8.50 to $10 a share, according to a filing submitted early Friday.

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DealBook: Zynga Aims to Raise $1 Billion

The sluggish economy and Dodd-Frank restrictions are affecting bankers’ compensation, leading to the weakest bonus season since the financial crisis.

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DealBook: Wall St. Pay Is Expected to Fall 20% to 30%

The SEC has violated federal law by destroying the records of thousands of enforcement cases in which it decided not to file charges against or conduct full-blown investigations of Wall Street firms and others initially suspected of wrongdoing, a former agency official has alleged. The purged records involve major firms such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and hedge-fund manager SAC Capital, the former official claimed. At issue were suspicions of actions such as insider trading, financial fraud and market manipulation. Read full article > >

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SEC accused of dumping records

The demand for Pandora underscores the market’s heady exuberance for consumer Internet companies.

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DealBook: Pandora Prices Its I.P.O. at $16 a Share

Groupon Inc. is filing for its IPO, hoping to raise up to $750 million. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Credit Suisse are the lead underwriters for the IPO of the company. Groupon earned $644.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of…

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Groupon Files for IPO

US bank Morgan Stanley reports a 60% jump in fourth-quarter profit, helped by rising revenue in its retail brokerage business.

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Morgan Stanley sees profits jump

A.I.G. paid off its obligations to the New York Fed, paving the way for the insurer and the Treasury Department to plan for a massive sale of stock this spring.

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DealBook: A.I.G. Repays Fed Debt and Looks Toward Big Stock Sale

The site is pushing ahead with plans for an I.P.O., a debut that could value the company at $15 billion or more.

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The two firms are the latest global banks to win the right to form joint ventures to underwrite stock and bond offerings in China.

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JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley Win Approval to Expand in China