The ways AI is changing the work of bankers and analysts just got clearer at the Wall Street bank.

Goldman Sachs raised the firm’s price target on Morgan Stanley (MS) to $138 from $128 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares after its Q4

Fourth-quarter 2024 profits at Bank of America (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS) more than doubled, cementing a Wall Street revival that has dealmakers optimistic about the coming Trump era in 2025. Strong investment banking and trading results also helped push profits higher at other big banks in the fourth quarter,

Morgan Stanley raised the firm’s price target on Goldman Sachs (GS) to $782 from $736 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares after the

The CEO also said he is ‘bullish’ on the potential for stock sales, including initial public offerings in 2025.

But the grand machinery keeping Wall Street moving is just picking up steam. That's because, deterred by regulatory uncertainty and higher borrowing costs, U.S. corporations have mostly sat on the sidelines in recent years when it came to buying competitors or selling themselves.

Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are next up in a series of bank earnings reports due out this week. The firms report fourth-quarter results on Thursday morning. Their competitors—JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo,

Among the S&P 500’s eleven sectors, Financials are expected to report the highest year-over-year earnings growth at nearly 40 percent, according to FactSet. Banks make up so much of that gain that if they were excluded from the sector, that figure would fall to 11 percent.

Wall Street paused, with stocks ending little changed. Strong bank earnings keep rolling in and Trump's Treasury pick fields Senate questions.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s stock was up 1.3% to $614 a share on Thursday, a record stock price for the investment bank, a day after its stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit. If the gains hold through the session,

JPMorgan Chase stands head-and-shoulders above the rest of this group of largest U.S. banks by ROAA, while Morgan Stanley runs a pretty close second when its performance is measured by ROTCE. And with such a large balance sheet, it is not a stretch to call JPM the best performer in the U.S. banking industry.