{"id":188617,"date":"2026-02-18T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/higher-for-longer-rates-are-good-for-business-morgan-stanley-ceo-ted-pick\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:05:20","slug":"higher-for-longer-rates-are-good-for-business-morgan-stanley-ceo-ted-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/higher-for-longer-rates-are-good-for-business-morgan-stanley-ceo-ted-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher-for-longer rates are &#8216;good for business&#8217;: Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/higher-longer-rates-good-business-194119441.html\">Higher-for-longer rates are &#8216;good for business&#8217;: Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/higher-longer-rates-good-business-194119441.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/higher-longer-rates-good-business-194119441.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 07:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick believes that higher-for-longer interest rates are beneficial for the company&#8217;s business strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Central bank policymakers anticipate rates to stay elevated due to persistent inflation and robust economic data.<\/li>\n<li>The Federal Reserve is expected to maintain high rates and reduce anticipated cuts for 2024, creating challenges for banks dependent on interest rate differentials and exposure to troubled borrowers.<\/li>\n<li>Pick credits the existing defensive strategy, developed by his predecessor James Gorman, for protecting Morgan Stanley from elevated rate risks.<\/li>\n<li>Despite market underperformance, Morgan Stanley&#8217;s profit has increased due to higher fees in investment banking, trading, and asset management.<\/li>\n<li>Pick emphasizes the integration of the firm&#8217;s various divisions for future growth and highlights the role of artificial intelligence in boosting investment bank revenues.<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Stanley awaits a final ruling on capital requirements, which officials expect to be less stringent than initially proposed, potentially freeing up capital for shareholder rewards such as dividends and stock buybacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher-for-longer rates are &#8216;good for business&#8217;: Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick https:\/\/www.aol.com\/higher-longer-rates-good-business-194119441.html Publish Date: 2026-02-18&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/aolfp\/images\/og-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-188617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188619,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188617\/revisions\/188619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}