文章核心观点 摩根大通同意支付1800万美元罚款，不承认也不否认美国证券交易委员会指控其在三年期间保密协议违反举报人保护规则 [1] 事件详情 - 摩根大通在2020年3月至2023年7月期间，常要求零售客户和经纪客户在收到银行超1000美元信贷或和解金时签署保密协议 [1] - 协议不允许客户主动联系美国证券交易委员会，但允许客户回应其询问 [1] 监管表态 - 美国证券交易委员会执法部门主管称不能在协议中设置阻止个人向其提供违规证据的条款，指控摩根大通此举违规 [2] - 美国证券交易委员会表示保密协议使客户在接受和解金或信贷与向其举报证券违规行为间做艰难选择 [2] - 美国证券交易委员会举报人规则禁止阻碍个人直接与其员工沟通证券违规行为的行动 [2] 其他相关 - 摩根士丹利曾因大宗交易欺诈被罚款2.49亿美元 [3]

Apple Inc.’s management typically doesn’t offer commentary on its business outside of the four earnings calls it hosts each year. And even on those calls, executives can be fairly circumspect. But occasionally Apple AAPL, +0.18% speaks with its actions, and that may be the case this week. Reports highlight that the company plans rare discounts in China on iPhones and MacBook Air computers during a Lunar New Year event. Some iPhone prices in China will fall by the equivalent of $70 during the sale, the N ...

公司收购 - Synopsys Inc.宣布以价值350亿美元的现金和股票交易收购设计软件公司Ansys Inc. [1] - 根据交易条款，Ansys股东将收到每股197.00美元的现金和0.3450股Synopsys股票 [1] - 预计交易将于2025年上半年完成 [1] 公司股价表现 - Ansys股价在过去12个月上涨了36.4% [1] - Synopsys股价上涨了48.5% [1]

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s stock GS, -0.53% was up by 1.6% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the investment bank’s fourth-quarter profit beat analysts’ reduced expectations. Goldman Sachs said its net income for the three months ended Dec. 31 rose to $1.87 billion, or $5.48 a share, from $1.19 billion, or $3.32 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Wall Street analysts estimated the marquee investment bank would earn $3.62 a share in the fourth quarter, which was trimmed from $6.67 a share at the start of ...

文章核心观点 - 摩根士丹利因一次性特殊费用未达利润预期，但投资银行业务推动营收大幅超预期，盘前股价上涨 [1] 公司业绩表现 - 净利润下降32.2%至15.2亿美元，每股收益85美分，未达FactSet共识预期的1.07美元 [1] - 营收增长1.2%至129亿美元，超FactSet共识预期的119.3亿美元 [1] - 投资银行营收增长5%，固定收益承销营收跃升25%，咨询和股票承销营收持平 [1] - 股票、固定收益和财富管理营收基本不变 [1] 股价表现 - 周二盘前股价上涨1.3% [1] - 截至上周五的过去三个月里，股价攀升13.9% [1] 行业表现对比 - 同期金融精选板块SPDR ETF上涨12%，标准普尔500指数上涨9.4% [1]

文章核心观点 - 百胜餐饮国际旗下的汉堡王宣布以10亿美元收购其加盟商卡罗斯餐饮集团 [1] 收购交易情况 - 交易价值10亿美元，卡罗斯股东每股将获9.55美元现金，较上周五收盘价8.42美元溢价13.4% [1] - 盘前交易中卡罗斯股票停牌至东部时间上午7:30，百胜餐饮国际股价盘前跌超1% [1] 卡罗斯餐饮集团情况 - 是美国最大的汉堡王加盟商，在23个州经营1022家汉堡王餐厅 [1] 收购预期影响 - 汉堡王预计未来五年大幅加快卡罗斯餐厅的翻新速度，使收购的餐厅达到现代形象 [1] 股价表现 - 过去三个月卡罗斯股价上涨49.8%，百胜餐饮国际股价上涨23.8%，标普500指数上涨9.4% [1]

The world’s richest person said he doesn’t have enough control over the company where he’s chief executive and the leading shareholder. Elon Musk said he doesn’t want to grow Tesla’s TSLA, -3.67% artificial intelligence and robotics capability without having control of a quarter of the company. Musk already owns 13% of the automaker. On the social media service X that he owns, Musk said he would need 25% control. “If I have 25%, it means I am influential, but can be overridden if twice as many sharehol ...

UBS analysts shook up their ratings of European drugmakers, including making a double-downgrade of AstraZeneca and a double-upgrade of U.K. rival GSK.UBS took its ratings on AstraZeneca AZN, -2.82% AZN, +0.35% to sell from buy, while it upgraded GSK GSK, -0.44% GSK, +1.16% to buy from sell. It also upped Novartis NOVN, +0.25% NVS, -0.14% and Sanofi SAN, +0.03% SNY, -0.51% to buy from neutral, and Novo Nordisk NOVO.B, -0.19% NVS, -0.14% to neutral from sell.Analysts led by Matthew Weston say sector valuation ...

Baidu on Monday said it had no links to a Chinese military lab, after a report sent stock in the internet services company tumbling. Baidu shares 9888, -11.53% in Hong Kong slumped 12% after the South China Morning Post reported on a research laboratory with the People’s Liberation Army’s Strategic Support Force that had tested its AI system on Baidu’s Ernie, as well as iFlyTrek’s Spark, which are large language models akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. U.S. shares of Baidu BIDU, -7.00% were not trading on Monda ...

银行业绩预测 - JPMorgan Chase & Co. 和 Bank of America Corp. 都表示预计经济会软着陆[1] - Wells Fargo & Co. 表示消费者支出仍然强劲[1] - Citigroup Inc. 表示尽管第四季度混乱且令人失望，但业务的潜在增长实际上非常强劲[1] - Edward Jones 分析师认为上周银行业的业绩“嘈杂”且“全面较弱”[4] - 银行的交易收入和贷款收入下滑，银行利润下降[5] - 银行可能会在今年削减成本，市场和交易可能会波动[5] - JPMorgan 预计今年美联储会进行六次降息，这将影响其净利息收入[6] - 商业房地产贷款和交易收入仍存在担忧[7] 业绩报告发布 - Morgan Stanley 和 Goldman Sachs 即将发布第四季度业绩报告[3] - 23家公司将在本周发布季度业绩报告，包括摩根士丹利和高盛[9] - 摩根士丹利的CEO表示不会改变战略，但未来的波动将是一次考验[11] - 高盛的业绩将在周二发布，分析师对其股票前景持谨慎态度[16] 投行收入和增长战略 - 投行收入预计将保持疲弱，但仍值得关注[12] - 分析师将关注摩根士丹利的增长战略和前任的差异[14]