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Morgan Stanley may hand over its unit Crescent Real Estate Equities to Barclays Capital, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Morgan Stanley [MS
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The bank had planned to put Crescent's assets into real estate investment funds, but markets soon seized up and Morgan was left holding these assets.
Morgan Stanley is also considering investing more capital into Crescent to keep it afloat, the paper said.
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Barclays Capital [BARC-LN Loading... ()] had provided a $2 billion loan to help finance the Crescent deal and the debt is due on Nov. 2.
Morgan Stanley and Barclays Capital could not be immediately reached for a comment by Reuters.
Shares in Morgan Stanley closed 0.6 percent lower at $32.52 on Tuesday.
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