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Options traders are getting more bullish on Goldman Sachs after its agreement with the SEC.

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Just saw this note from Goldman Sachs Thursday night, suspending the coverage of some IT Hardware/Systems companies after the departure of the lead analyst.

According to various news sources, the U.S.

Thanks to Cheg for timely heads up while I was off wittering on elsewhere. That news and Bini Smaghi's pearl re chances of sovereign debt crisis possibly hitting US, Japan, UK eventually have deflated things somewhat.  EUR/JPY back down

Goldman Sachs downgraded Merck to "neutral" from "conviction buy" and lowered its major pharma sector rating to "neutral" from "attractive," citing disappointment over results of big pharma mergers.

Not what a struggling firm needs, nor does the US stock market...

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Reports of a criminal probe into Goldman Sachs mortgage trading are weighing on the company's shares Friday morning.

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Goldman's up 1.4% in pre-trading following solid first quarter results.

Oh-eh.  This one's going to run and run folks.  EUR/USD has slipped back to 1.3472 at writing.

Ashby Jones, Editor of the WSJ’s Law Blog, talks to Dow Jones Investment Banker about motions to dismiss, materiality, standards of evidence, and the wave of investor lawsuits likely to hit all the big investment banks

Like everyone else who watches Wall Street, we’re keeping one ear clamped to the Goldman Sachs conference this morning. Veteran financial services analyst Glenn Schorr of UBS started off the questions including a pret

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The Yen surged on news that the SEC brought fraud charges against Goldman Sachs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it has charged Goldman Sachs (GS) and one of its vice presidents with fraud. According to the SEC, Goldman Sachs defrauded investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial pro

Goldman Sachs charged with fraud by US Securities and Exchange Commission US housing starts rise 1.6% University of Michigan consumer sentiment index tumbles to 69.5 in April from 73.6 in March ECB's Stark: Skeptical of IMF role in Greek bailout

Managing directors have been banished to windowless offices in their new harbor-side digs in New York.

The case against Goldman Sachs over a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal could be just the start of Wall Street's legal troubles.

The City watchdog is to examine the American case against the Wall St giant, as demands grow for a full inquiry.

• US Dollar Rallies Sharply on Goldman Sachs SEC Complaint, S&P 500 Tumbles • Euro Outperforms Despite Confirmation of Formal Greek – EMU/IMF Talks • Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar se

Stocks are diving as the risk-off atmosphere intensifies.

As if the Goldman story were not enough to push EUR/JPY (the risk barometer) lower, comments from the ECB's Stark are helping weigh, He says there are countries in the euro zone that have lived beyond their means (no kidding, but the market has move

Goldman Sachs shares have been on a tear lately.

It was the top large-cap gainer of 2009.

Our Partners at Market News have an interesting tidbit from the economists at Goldman.

US DATA REACT: Economists at Goldman say the Feb PPI report was benign for prices of finished goods, with gasoline prices pulling headline down more than expected.

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Keep an eye on the Dow Jones Transportation index Wednesday.

Goldman Sachs downgraded consumer-products maker Kimberly-Clark, predicting wood-pulp costs are set to climb.

He also says it would be counterproductive if derivatives were used in a way that destabilized national economies.

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Associated Press Goldman Sachs upgrades Nasdaq OMX to convic

The real has been easing in recent sessions as a result of the wave of risk aversion spawned by China's liquidity tightening and signs that the recoveries  of the developed economies are beginning to cool. Goldman Sachs recommends taking

GDP report boosts market, investors cautious in Southern Copper, Goldman Sachs Following a better-than-expected GDP report, the S&P 500 spdrs (SPY) clim

Goldman Sachs upgrades regional banking sector view to neutral from cautious, contending credit problems, earnings and capital risk are all looking better.

There is a lot of buzz in the market this morning about Goldman buying lots of 1.4200 1 week puts in EUR/USD as well as slightly longer dated 1.4000 outs.

Tenet Healthcare shares up 10.4% at $6.02 after Goldman Sachs upgrades to conviction buy from buy, citing valuation.

Blake Hounshell asks (of me specifically, no less) why “other banks didn’t follow Goldman’s lead when in December 2006 the firm turned bearish on the mort

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Goldman Sachs has threatened the UK Treasury with plans to move up to 20% of its London-based staff to Spain in a stand-off over tax and bonuses.

Meredith Whitney cut earnings estimates for Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Traders say Goldman recommended EUR/USD longs at the 1.4545 level.

The markets have firmly settled into their winter hibernation period, say Barclays Capital analysts, while tweaking their outlook for investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Barclays analysts cite “the mean

Just announced on CNBC that the Goldman Sachs Management Committee (a 30 strong committee) will not be paid cash bonuses for 2009 but will be paid with "shares at risk", subject to  certain restrictions for 5 years.

For those hoping that we’ll see a sharp reduction in the unemployment rate soon — we’re looking at you Washington Dems — Goldman Sachs offers a few words of caution.

Goldman has two trades out of 8 that are easily accessed by retail traders.

We all know how Warren Buffett swooped into Goldman Sachs at the peak of the financial crisis last fall, sinking $5 billion into the gold-plated investment bank and picking up the rights to buy Goldman shares at $115 apiece. Bu

Goldman Sachs estimates that losses from the credit crisis since March 2009 will total $2.1 and $2.6 trillion.

Goldman Sachs tossed U.S. Steel on its “conviction list” of buys and upgraded the entire steel sector from “neutral” to “attractive,” citing rising prices of scrap — a leading

Remember back in late summer when traders took en masse to betting on some of the most battered financial names in the thoroughly beaten financial sector? In a round-up on the capital markets Monday, Goldman Sachs notes that du

Target’s tepid fourth-quarter outlook and its unfortunate proximity to Wal-Mart in the U.S.

Traders are talking about a research piece out of Goldman in which they point out that EUR/USD has rallied into year-end from mid-November 8 out of the last 9 years.

Courtesy of the SIGTARP’s latest report, the events on November 6 and 7th, when Wall Street lackey extraordinaire Tim Geithner decided to pay $27.1 billion to make all of AIG’s

The tariffs the Obama Administration put on low-end Chinese tires should serve as a boost for Goodyear, Goldman Sachs said in a note out today. Goldman upgraded Goodyear to “buy” from “neutral&

McDonald’s is operating from the top of the fast-food heap, Goldman Sachs notes, with a heavy dose of confidence that it can invest in its business at a time when peers are retrenching.

The market consensus for non-farm payrolls is presently about -175,000 but Goldman is slightly less optimistic.

This forecast may give a preview to a potential upset in US GDP, like we got in durable goods. This would confirm further worries about the global recovery but how close could Goldman be?

Ahead of Thursday’s U.S. gross domestic product numbers, Goldman Sachs cut its third-quarter GDP estimate to 2.7%, following lower-than-expected durable-goods shipments Wednesday morning.

Morgan Stanley ratcheted up its risk level during the third quarter, but its appetite for excitement is still less than arch rival Goldman Sachs. Morgan Stanley posted a profit of $757 million, or 38 cents a share, compared wit

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Can you beat and still disappoint? It seems like Goldman did. Goldman Sachs’ third-quarter earnings more than tripled from a year earlier thanks, in part, to fees it takes from trading of bonds, currencies and commodi

Published at 11:37 (GMT) 15 Oct It is seldom that one talks about Goldman Sachs and disappointing earnings results, but it does happen.

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Star banking analyst Meredith Whitney downgraded Goldman Sachs to neutral from “buy” this morning, although only her clients know why.

Wells Fargo is getting a nice bid today.

Everett Near as we can tell, the late day sell-off start

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) will hire up to 200 staff to build its asset management business as the company aims to establish a dominant position as one of the world's leading asset managers, according to a report in the Financial Times on Sunday.

Goldman Sachs looks for stronger real manufacturing and trade sales gains in August thanks to cash-for-clunkers, a later back-to-school calendar and poor weather that the firm says pushed some sales from July into August.

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Goldman is out with a new piece which highlights some substantial cautionary language on perspectives before the REIT landscape.

There’s another 15%-20% downside risk for commercial real estate REITs, Goldman Sachs says, as loan defaults should begin to rise rapidly as the cycle intensifies from 2010 to 2013.

Goldman Sachs’ economists lay out several key economic signs they expect to confirm their forecast that the economy will begin to recover during the next six months.

Rebounding growth in China and the US will drag the rest of Asia along in its wake, Goldman Sachs says.

Diversified media company New York Times Co.(NYT), the parent of the The Boston Globe, confirmed Thursday that it is exploring a potential sale of the struggling daily newspaper.

The rotten fruit is still raining down on Yahoo following the

National Australia Bank announced that it will be buying an 80.1% stake in Goldman Sachs JBWere, the US-based investment bank's Australian private brokerage....

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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. took note of an earlier post regarding the $12.9 billion it received through the bailout of American International Group Inc.

After Morgan Stanley’s rocky earnings report this morning, few bankers over there will likely find this funny. But the rest of us might enjoy the New Yorker’s spoof memo from Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankf

The eggheads over at Goldman Sachs are out with a bullish note on the markets this morning which — along with CIT — might be contributing a favorable breeze into the sails of the stock market. The folks over

News and views The talk of the evening was Goldman Sachs’ Q2 earning per share of $4.93, much better than the $3.65 consensus.

Goldman Sachs’ before-the-bell report blew the doors off expectations, though yesterday’s run-up in shares seemed to have eaten much of the potential market bounce.

The Journal’s Dennis Berman and Evan Newmark talk Goldman Earnings, “Goldman-envy-itis” and make a wager about compensation at Goldman competitor Morgan Stanley.

Contrary to the write-up Rolling Stone gave Goldman Sachs in a recent Rolling Stone piece — in which writer Matt Taibbi called the Wall Street titan “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamm

Forex markets are likely to look past the data docket to follow risk trends in European hours, with second-quarter earnings reports from Goldman Sachs...

This morning, Goldman Sachs raised Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to its Conviction Buy List, which could have a meaningful impact on the technology sector, and possibly the overall market.

Like many of us, Robert Iati, a partner at TABB Group, is fascinated by the alleged theft of proprietary trading code from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Goldman accused a former employee, Sergey Aleynikov, of stealing 35 megabytes o

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With a subtitle like “From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again” run, don’t wa

Was that Cramer complaining there is too much democracy in this country? My dear, you of all people should be so glad for First Amendment rights after losing hapless mom and pop retail investors, whose only sin is listening to you, countless bil

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Tuesday, financial service providers Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

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Goldman is talking on both sides of the bottom.

The payroll "whisper" of -475k seems to me a bit too close to Goldmans own estimate of -475k for my liking, but it certainly has the market set up in expectation of a figure in that vicinity.

First Buffett bought banks, now another gold-plated Wall Street brand is out with a vote of confidence for the U.S.

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Edward M. Liddy, the dollar-a-year chief executive leading the American Int

The loud-and-proud message from Goldman Sachs Group in its surprise earnings report is that the company decided to ask the public for $5 billion in funding to help pay back…the public, who it borrowed the money from in the first pl

If Wells Fargo set the bar high for the banking sector, Goldman S

It’s possible that options players had wind of a positive Goldman Sachs e

Goldman Sachs reported a surprisingly strong first quarter, easily topping analyst estimates and providing the kind of positive headlines that should have investors feeling more confident about the fragile financial sector. At

Mixed trading is being witnessed among the major markets across the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday.

The major markets in the Asia-Pacific region ended higher on Tuesday on growing optimism regarding a global recovery after the sixth largest bank in the U.S, Goldman Sachs, reported better than expected financial results for the first quarter of 2009.

The US Dollar may see selling pressure in European hours as stock exchanges open for the first time since last week and investors price in Japan’s third...

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Goldman Sachs, the target of many a conspiracy theory, is out to shut down a blog that takes the firm to task.

Take this TARP and shove it rmains the most fervent wish of Wall St.

The financial giant Goldman Sachs spent tens of millions of dollars to bail

Several members of the House Financial Services committee have made it a point to probe Geithner on all sorts of "shadowy" connections between Goldman Sachs and the AIG bailout.