The Balance Sheet
Published: Feb 15, 2008
Number of total job cuts Morgan Stanley announced in all of 2007: 900
Number of years that Jerker Johansson, the new chairman and CEO of UBS Investment Bank, worked at Morgan Stanley, where he most recently served as vice chairman: 22
Jerker Johansson's current age: 51
UBS AG's net loss for the fourth quarter of 2007: $11.3 billion
UBS AG's net loss for the full year 2007: $4 billion
Percent increase in Credit Suisse's net revenue in 2007: 6
Percent increase in Evercore Partners' net revenue in 2007: 53
Evercore Partner's ranking in U.S. announced merger and acquisition deals, by volume, in 2007: 12
Goldman Sachs' ranking in U.S. announced merger and acquisition deal volume in 2007: 1
Goldman Sachs' ranking in Fortune magazine's latest list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For: 9
High range of the estimate cost of sex reassignment surgery, which Goldman Sachs now covers for employees under its health insurance plan: $150,000
Approximate 2007 bonus of a first-year sales associate at Goldman Sachs: $145,000
Percent stake that Morgan Stanley recently took in a Vietnamese brokerage firm, in what was the first deal of its kind by a Western firm in the Southeast Asian country: 49
Number of securities firms operating in Vietnam in 2006: 15
Number of securities firms operating in Vietnam today: 100
Approximate number of retail bank branches that U.K.-based bank HSBC currently owns in France: 800
Approximate number of its French branches that HSBC announced that it might sell: 300
Estimated worth of those branches: $3.90 billion
Loss that French bank Société Générale incurred as a result of former employee Jérôme Kerviel’s unauthorized trades: $7.1 billion