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Goldman Sachs, Blue Source and CE2 Carbon Capital Complete North America s Largest Carbon Offset Transaction [Press Release]
Business Wire | 43 days 2 hours 8 minutes ago
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), Blue Source, and CE2 Carbon Capital today announced a $12 million U.S. carbon offset transaction. This is the largest publicly announced U.S. offset transaction to date and signifies confidence in the role carbon offsets will play in a U.S. regulated carbon market.


Wall Street, Bloomberg & the Yankees strike back David Weidner's Writing on the Wall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 11 hours 41 minutes ago
That's what happened last Friday when, in the shadow of Wall Street, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the New York Yankees after the team's parade celebrating the organization's 27th championship. It wasn't just a special moment; it was the best moment money could buy.


Goldman Sachs to promote 272 executives
Canada.com | 4 days 3 hours ago
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., in the spotlight over its controversial plans to pay billions of dollars in year-end bonuses to executives, has invited 272 executives to join the ranks of managing directors, a source familiar with the matter said.


Hyatt Hotels IPO on deck for Thursday - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 20 days 2 hours 34 minutes ago
Airline stocks up with US Airways, UAL


Capmark Financial files for bankruptcy - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 29 days 17 hours 35 minutes ago
The firm said it has filed motions to allow it to continue to pay vendors and salaries, and that the move "should not impact the way Capmark does business with its customers and partners."


Wall Street bankers shouldn't get H1N1 vaccine, group says - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 18 days 16 hours 1 minute ago
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A Washington, D.C., nonprofit group wants to know why Wall Street bankers are getting vaccines against the new H1N1 flu strain when many Americans are being told to wait.


Goldman Sachs, Buffett to help small businesses
Yahoo! | 6 days 11 hours 19 minutes ago
NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands of small business owners across America with college scholarships and boost their access to capital.


Tuesday's biggest gaining and declining stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 42 days 5 hours 21 minutes ago
Toolmaker Black & Decker issued a stunning earnings outlook Monday, but much of its boost comes from a tax break. It seems the one thing that everyone needs, sales growth, still proves elusive.


Figures show record Wall St. profit after bailouts - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 27 minutes ago
However, compensation restrictions that came with government support may limit the tax-revenue bonus boost that New York City -- facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit -- usually gets from such Wall Street success, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli explained.


Washington's hatchet job on the economy Outside the Box - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 11 hours 51 minutes ago
Some want to cut up the banks according to the rules of Glass-Steagall, separating banks from brokers and investment banks, while others are focused on splitting banks from insurance. Some want American banks to keep their U.S. operations, but shed everything abroad. And still others want to bifurcate risk, putting "the casino" in one enterprise and "the utility" in another.


Buffett the Empire Builder MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 20 days 23 hours 26 minutes ago
Most importantly, it hauls coal, lots of coal, from the vast open pit mines of the Powder River basin in eastern Wyoming and Montana. Nearly all of that coal goes to power plants. About 10% of the power generated in the country comes from coal hauled on BNSF trains.


Wells Fargo to repay clients who held auction rate securities - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 16 hours 5 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The North American Securities Administrators Association Wednesday announced a settlement in principle between Wells Fargo Investments LLC and state securities regulators to return approximately $1.3 billion to the firm's clients whose funds have been frozen in the auction rate securities market.


Thursday's biggest gaining and declining stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 5 hours 15 minutes ago
The health of big business -- and the rebound in the stock market -- may be blinding us to just how weak the rest of the economy is.





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Company: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Industry: Large-Market Investment Banking
Website: http://www.goldmansachs.com

Goldman Sachs has traditionally possessed the Midas touch in the investment banking world. A global leader in mergers and acquisitions advice and securities underwriting, Goldman offers a gamut of investment banking and asset management services to corporate and government clients, as well as institutional and individual investors. It owns Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, one of the largest market makers on the NYSE and a leading market maker for fixed income products, currencies, and commodities. In 2008 Goldman Sachs converted to a bank holding company and formed subsidiary Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank USA), now in charge of bank loan trading, mortgage originations, and other activities.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 22,222 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales -51.7 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 2,322 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income -79.6 (2008)
Number of Employees 30,067 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -1.5 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End November