And Then There Was Two - Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs (MS, GS)

With Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) now bankrupt, and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) sold to Bank of America, there remains just two independent major investment banks - Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).

Today there is speculation they could likely buy a deposit bank of sellout to a deposit bank. Ladenburg Thalmann analyst Dick Bove mentioned this today.

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