(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc lost $428 million during the third quarter, only its second quarterly loss as a public company, hurt by sharp declines in the value of investment securities and customer trading assets. The largest U.S. investment bank lost 84 cents per share, compared with earnings of $2.98 per share a year earlier. Analysts had been…
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s long-time advisers Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Allen & Co are preparing to give potential buyers financial information, in a sign the troubled Internet giant is ready to put itself on the block, sources close to the situation said. Over the last few weeks, potential buyers…
NEW YORK (AFP) – Several major US banks are close to an agreement with the Wall Street regulator to settle fraud allegations related to the “toxic” mortgages behind the 2008 financial crisis, a report said Friday. An initial agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could be settled next…
NEW YORK — US banks have found a way to continue betting their own money on some investments, despite a new law’s restrictions on proprietary trading, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing Wall Street executives. The “Volcker rule” provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform limits the extent to which…