It has long been thought that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) was going to escape this credit crisis mostly unscathed and that the firm would never have capital issues.  The good news is that...
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is likely to report a bad quarter. Much of this will be due to LBO debt which it has on its books and cannot syndicate to other institutions. It took on the paper for its...
Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) today give up their vaunted status as investment banks, no longer being the top dogs of the financial world. In this ancient industry, there is now no last...
Constellation Energy Group Inc. (NYSE:CEG) continues to shed assets. This time it’s the company’s London-based international commodities trading operations, which Constellation will sell to a...
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has raised its Brent Crude average oil prices for the years ahead.  The firm has increased its price forecasts to reflect a continued tightening of global crude...
Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp. was going to be the first real special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC or blank check company, from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).  The key word in...
Sandler O’Neill is an institutional brokerage firm that many individual investors have not ever heard of, yet it has been around for roughly 20 years.  It also does business in some form or...
LinkedIn Corporation is one of our top 17 IPOs to watch for 2011, and it has now formally filed for its IPO.  The social networking site for professionals has filed to sell up to $175 million in...
The FBI is looking into why the subprime market fell apart. As a matter of fact, it wants those who are guilty to turn themselves in so they do not have to be pursued to the ends of the Earth....
Yesterday was a rather odd day in more than one way.  The reaction to Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) was given a warm reception, despite the much wider losses than expected, the negative revenues...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has become thought of as Darth Vader’s Empire for the public of late.  Still, investors are torn over whether to Buy or Sell Goldman Sachs’ as a stock.  If...
Billionaire and esteemed investor Warren Buffett has made a major move.  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is investing some $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).  His stake is in...
MoneyGram International, Inc. (NYSE: MGI) has completed its recapitalization that was led by affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS).  Here is a breakdown of how the...
Trying to count options contracts in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is nearly impossible, and this was copied from trade blotters with snapshots of 12:12 to 12:18 PM EST.  The notion...