Bloomberg Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman sounded a positive note about the Wall Street bank’s business, telling investors to “stay tuned” for better performance as markets recover. Speaking to Bloomberg Television in Beijing, where the firm is hosting its China summit, Gorman said a 6 percent return on equity in the first quarter was in “a very ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG hired Thomas Piquemal as head of global mergers and acquisitions and chairman of corporate and investment banking in France. Piquemal, 47, most recently senior executive vice president for finance at French electricity utility Electricite de France SA, will be based in Paris and report to corporate and investment banking chief Jeff Urwin, Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) warned that risks of financial-market turmoil have increased amid slower growth in emerging economies, weak bank profitability and the rise of populist movements across the 19-nation euro region. “A sharper-than-expected fall in Chinese growth could well lead to a synchronized downturn across other emerging market economies, particularly commodity exporting economies,” the ECB wrote ...