1885 The predecessor of the company was established.
19 14 1 Charles Merrill founded Charles e Merrill Lynch, and Edmund Lynch joined in. In May of that year, the company set up an office at No.7 Wall Street in New York.
1965438+ was renamed as "Meilin Company" in 2005.
1930, the company's business is concentrated in the investment banking field.
Lynch died in1938; The company changed its name to Merrill Lynch.
194 1 became the first company on Wall Street to publish its annual corporate report.
1946, the company established the fund management institute, and is now a financial consulting company.
1955, the annual contracted amount of the company exceeded 10 billion USD.
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1958 changed its name to "Merrill Lynch-Pierce-Finner-Smith Company".
1960 set up an office in London, England.
196 1 opened a representative office in Tokyo.
1964 set up an office in Tokyo, Japan, acquired C J Devine Company and entered the field of fixed income securities.
197 1 is listed on the new york Stock Exchange.
1973 Company became a securities investment company.
1976 asset management department was established.
1982 set up a regional headquarters in hong kong.
1985 entered the Japanese securities market as the first foreign-funded securities company.
1993 became the first American securities company to open an office in China.
1999 won the title of the world's largest underwriter of stocks and bonds for the last time, and the title was handed over to Citigroup in the United States the following year. In the same year, it entered the digital age and launched its business on the Internet.
Stanley O 'Neill became CEO in 2002.
In 2006, it acquired First Franklin Financial Company, a subsidiary of National City Bank. This company is mainly engaged in subprime mortgage business.
From June 5438 to October 2007 10, the accumulated losses in mortgage business forced O 'Neill to step down as chairman and CEO.
From June 5438 to February 2007, John Thain, CEO of NYSE Euronext, took over as chairman and CEO of NYSE Euronext.
In the year before June 30, 2008, the company's mortgage-related business lost about $654.38+09 billion. Enterprises began to raise funds from sovereign wealth funds and other investors to sell risky assets.
On September 6, 2008, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself to Bank of America for $44 billion.
On April 2, 20 13 and April 5/kloc-0, the international spot gold price plunged more than 150 USD, and once fell to 1385.5 USD per ounce, with a drop of more than 10%. The "behind-the-scenes" of this gold plunge, and the "number one suspect" identified in the workshop is Merrill Lynch.