When Goldman said it wanted to break Deutsche Bank's stranglehold on Germany's biggest corporations, local staff laughed.
When Goldman offers a job to a prospective employee, they accept the offer 95% of the time, he says.
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This problem surfaced recently when Goldman Sachs announced its yearly promotions.
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The stock has sharply outperformed its peers, shooting up nearly 68% since August 2010, when Goldman added the stock to its conviction-buy list.
When Goldman Sachs realized the mortgage market was in decline, it took actions to profit from that decline at the expense of its clients.
When Goldman Sachs has a corporate board meeting, you can bet that the topics discussed are important and have the potential to move financial markets.
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When Goldman says essentially the same thing they are largely dismissed.
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First, they excluded December, a poor month that fell into a convenient gap when Goldman and Morgan Stanley switched to calendar-year reporting on becoming bank-holding firms.
When Goldman Sachs went public two decades later, it devoted several pages of its initial annual report to the many layers of risk management put in place.
When Goldman Sachs made its first forecasts for the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) in 2003, it predicted that China would overtake America in 2041.
For the veterans who remember when Goldman wasn't the well-oiled trading machine it has become, there is a view that it has lost its way ethically in recent decades.
The book has flaws: there is too much on well-trodden events from the distant past, too little on the traumatic weeks after AIG's bail-out, when Goldman came close to death.
According to a source within the bank, when Goldman sheds those in its bottom 5%, the firm pulls him or her aside in a private meeting, reveals the news and then gives the employee three or four months in which to find a new job.
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Regulatory Risk : When the Goldman fraud charges surfaced, the market used it as an excuse to sell off.
The tensions began April 16, when, Goldman says, the SEC filed the fraud charges without even an hour's heads-up, a notice regulators typically give before charges are brought.
PwC also did well when audit clients JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America got even bigger by swallowing up the firms that failed during the crisis and when clients Goldman Sachs and AIG were favorites for financial crisis taxpayer support.
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Hank Paulson took a 99.5% pay cut when he left Goldman Sachs to become America's treasury secretary.
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When I left Goldman Sachs, I called everybody I could think of and wound up six weeks later at Roundtable Services.
Tuesday afternoon's bond sale was the culmination of a frenzied process that began Monday when underwriters at Goldman and Deutsche Bank contacted investors around the world to gauge their interest in buying Apple's debt.
By that definition, when Rajaratnam traded Goldman Sachs (GS) shares after getting word from a Goldman director that it would report a loss instead of a profit, as investors had expected, he was clearly breaking the law.
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That is what Goldman said when they were confronted with the same thing.
Either way, it will be difficult for the government to push for criminal charges when the SEC let Goldman go without admitting or denying wrongdoing.
This is what the audio-manufacturing firm claims it just heard from would-be buyers KKR and Goldman Sachs when they backed out a deal Friday to buy the firm.
When speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in September , CEO Gracia Martore reiterated earlier comments that broadcasting would show revenue growth in the 3rd Quarter of more than 30%.
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Like Taibbi, Kaufman traces the beginnings of the increased commodity price volatility to 1991, presumably when the CFTC granted Goldman the exemption from the 5000 contract speculative limit in the commodities futures markets.
DuVally, the Goldman spokesman, declined to comment when I asked whether it was inconsistent for Goldman to make a move for its executives to avoid taxes after Blankfein endorsed increases for the wealthy.
When a firm like Goldman Sachs has the ability to have conflicts of interest, and their corporate culture takes advantage of their responsibilities by putting their own interest first, they no longer serve their clients.
Among other things Mr Gupta is accused of passing sensitive information about Goldman Sachs when he was a director of the bank to Raj Rajaratnam, a former hedge-fund boss who was convicted of insider trading last year.
When Bush nominated the Goldman Sachs chairman for the Treasury post on May 30, most observers saw the pick as a chance to snag a Wall Street heavyweight whose star power could boost the public's perception of his handling of the economy, especially after the drab tenures of Paul O'Neill and John Snow.
When Bush nominated the Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) chairman for the Treasury post on May 30, most observers saw the pick as a chance to snag a Wall Street heavyweight whose star power could boost the public's perception of his handling of the economy, especially after the drab tenures of Paul O'Neill and John Snow.
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