How long until this spreads to the City? The New York Times reports that Occupy Wall Street has been a financial stimulus package of its own for the security industry... more
Is Goldman Sachs going to change? Should it? During the peak of the financial crisis, it was possible to believe that it thought it should, that it might retrieve its lost motto of being "long-term greedy", rather than chasing every short-term buck going via fast trades, hostile takeovers involving its own clients, or whatever else it fancied... more
Calls among Goldmanites for Hank Paulson to return as non-executive chairman have been growing — the idea being that current embattled leader Lloyd Blankfein concentrates on being chief executive... more
Goldman Sachs has reacted with disdain to being grilled by the Senate. But its mystique has been shaken, says Philip Delves Broughton in New York... more
As is usual, Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein does not field questions at the quarterly results, leaving those duties to chief financial officer David Viniar... more
The Beverly Hills site bought by Christian Candy’s CPC Group for $500 million three years ago has gone under the hammer - but the Candy brothers insist it won't affect One Hyde Park... more
President Barack Obama says he does not begrudge the top two men on Wall Street - Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon - their multimillion-dollar pay... more
Comment: A book tries to stem moves to rewrite the history of the financial crisis and lays blame firmly at the collapse of the housing bubble - and says the maths shouldn't have been hard to work out... more
City Comment: On the day that President Obama delivered his knockout blow to the banks, I was meeting a senior City figure. We both admitted to being totally perplexed by the banks — how intelligent people should get it so hopelessly wrong... more
Tomorrow the gloves come off for another round of banker bonus bashing. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have had stellar years: once again, estimates will be everywhere of how much their leading players stand to receive ... more
One of the most senior investment bankers in London has weighed in on the controversy over pay in the industry, attacking City and Wall Street employees as “greedy” and “inept”... more
No sooner do we have the flop that is the national apprenticeship scheme, fronted by Lord Sugar, than comes news of another failed Government initiative... more
Goldman Sachs traders in London and New York made a daily profit of more than $100million (£58.8 million) on an astonishing 46 days during the past quarter... more
Strange noises are emanating from America's banking industry as it undergoes its post-crisis makeover. Wall Street's titans are rejoicing at repaying the money lent to them by the government at the height of the crisis late last year ... more
Banking: Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein is the latest leader of a major financial firm to acknowledge the growing public loathing of bankers... more
One of the enduring myths about money management is that it should be complicated. Bernard Madoff, the 70-year-old twisted genius behind what may be the biggest investment scam ever, played up to this notion brilliantly... more
Goldman Sachs' top four executives will have to hold on to 90% of the shares they own in the firm as part of the deal to raise money from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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