The Latest Breaking News from Morgan Stanley

Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) filed 15 trademark applications for its brand name, its "Priceless" slogan, and its circles logo that point to nonfungible token and metaverse ambitions, the Insider reports. Mastercard's applications filed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office outlined plans to process virtual cards, hold entertainment and educational services in the metaverse, and…

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Morgan Stanley analysts say they're seeing signs of weakness in the networking and enterprise storage sector after the segment was viewed as a "safe place" at the start of 2022.

Morgan Stanley analyst Meta Marshall downgraded her industry view on Telecom & Networking Equipment to Cautious from In-Line with enterprise data points weakening and the dollar strengthening.  Given their backlog, Marshall saw equipment and storage companies to "sound good" on the calendar Q1 earnings call.

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Morgan Stanley's (NYSE:MS) short percent of float has fallen 22.54% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 15.39 million shares sold short, which is 1.1% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Morgan Stanley has decided to maintain its Overweight rating of NexTier Oilfield (NYSE:NEX) and raise its price target from $8.00 to $11.00. Shares of NexTier Oilfield are trading down 2.01% over the last 24 hours, at $10.26 per share.

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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) looks to appeal its loss to New York union organizers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Roughly 55% of the workers who cast valid votes from a Staten Island facility named JFK8 chose to side with Amazon Labor Union. WSJ notes that Amazon has accused the union organizers of threatening…

Analysts mostly lifted their price targets on Sprinklr Inc (NYSE:CXM) following its Q4 beat. Sprinklr clocked Q4 FY21 revenue growth of 30% year-over-year to $135 million, beating the consensus of $130.38 million. Subscription revenue increased by 30.7% Y/Y to $117.69 million. "We accelerated our growth, went public, and created a new category called…

Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne has an Overweight rating and a $170 price target (28.3% upside) on The Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS). Swinburne saw Disney implementing Technology and operational tools in its parks that should drive structurally higher growth and incremental margins, and he raised his Parks estimates accordingly.  Swinburne, who saw a multi-year period…