Morgan Stanley Earnings Preview: Suffering Or Sailing?

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will release its earnings numbers for the three months through September 2013 on Friday before the market opens on Wall Street. Investors in the bank will be looking back at the mediocre results from the other financials in the course of this earnings season, and wondering whether Morgan Stanley can beat the trend.

Consensus numbers gathered in the weeks leading up to the release of this earnings report indicate that analysts are expecting Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) to post earnings of 42 cents per share. Revenue for the third quartet is...