{"id":699740,"date":"2026-01-16T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699740\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:10:23","slug":"london-stocks-retreat-from-highs-following-volatile-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699740\/","title":{"rendered":"London stocks retreat from highs following volatile week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">LaToya Harding writes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Morgan Stanley (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/MS\" data-ylk=\"slk:MS;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MS<\/a>) jumped nearly 6% on Thursday and rose again in pre-market trading on Friday after reporting upbeat fourth-quarter results, which exceeded Wall Street expectations on the back of strong revenue from wealth management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Fourth-quarter net income rose to $4.40bn, or $2.68 per share, from $3.71bn, or $2.22 per share, a year ago. Revenue increased to $17.89bn from $16.22bn a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The wealth management unit posted $8.4bn in net revenue in the most recent quarter, up from $7.5bn a year earlier. For the full year, the division generated a record $31.8bn in net revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Total client assets in the wealth and investment management business climbed to $9.3tn, fuelled by more than $350 billion in net new assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">\u201cMorgan Stanley delivered outstanding performance in 2025,\u201d Ted Pick, the bank\u2019s chief executive and chairman, said in a statement. \u201cOur performance reflects multi-year investments which have contributed to growth and momentum across the integrated firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Morgan Stanley shares have gained more than 43% over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaToya Harding writes: Morgan Stanley (MS) jumped nearly 6% on Thursday and rose again in pre-market trading on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,210692,210694,393,1880,4884,257,210693,6202,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-699740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-commodities-prices","10":"tag-commodity-stocks","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-ftse-100","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-mining-stocks","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115904474152038116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}