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Goldman Sachs teams with Warren Buffett on $500 million effort to help small businesses
Hartford Courant (Conn.), The | 6 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday it 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.


Lazard feels the void left by Wasserstein MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 11 hours 8 minutes ago
That struggle is becoming public as three frontrunners have emerged to take leadership of the firm. Ken Jacobs, Gary Parr and Steve Golub, all senior executives, have emerged as candidates to share power in a multi-headed management structure at Lazard, according to the New York Post. See full story.


Panasonic Announces Commencement of Tender Offer for SANYO Shares [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 19 hours 29 minutes ago
Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC)(TOKYO:6752)(the "Tender Offeror" or the "Company") announced that it resolved at its Board of Directors meeting held on November 4, 2009 to acquire the shares of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6764)(the "Target") through the tender offer (the "Tender Offer") as follows:


Critical Alerts for Goldman Sachs, Best Buy, DuPont, Rambus, and Barnes & Noble Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 13 days 6 hours 44 minutes ago
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Dimon's on top and wants to stay that way MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 10 hours 45 minutes ago
"Artificial limits may sound simple," Dimon wrote, but "would undermine the goals of economic stability, job creation and consumer service that lawmakers are trying to promote." See Dimon editorial in Washington Post.


U.S. banks may take billion-dollar hit from U.K. - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 4 hours 3 minutes ago
Many countries are looking at tougher liquidity rules, but the U.K.'s decision to move before an international consensus has been reached, and to apply its rules widely, could cost U.S. and European firms "potentially billions of dollars," said Simon Morris, a partner at law firm CMS Cameron McKenna in London.


Bove's influence rises at confluence of media, finance - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 22 hours 10 minutes ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Richard X. Bove, the longtime banking-industry pundit, wields significant influence on Wall Street these days.


Not all AIG retention payments needed: Barofsky - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 9 hours 32 minutes ago
However, AIG could have renegotiated them and the government's "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg is encouraging the insurer to do so with the remaining contracts, Barofsky said during Congressional testimony on Wednesday.


U.S. stocks brace for more earnings - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 37 days 9 hours 54 minutes ago
With just 61 S&P 500 companies having reported earnings so far, 79% have topped analysts' expectations, 11% have matched, and 10% have come in below expectations, according to Thomson Reuters.


Paulson held big stake in Citi on Sept. 30 - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 2 hours 23 minutes ago
A recent study shows people are twice as likely to seek information that confirms their beliefs than they are to consider evidence that contradicts thems. WSJ Intelligent Investor columnist Jason Zweig tells Kelsey Hubbard how this "confirmation bias" can influence their financial decisions.


Amadeus hires coordinators for IPO: report - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 19 hours 5 minutes ago
The company had already retained investment bank Rothschild as its leading adviser for a planned offering of a 30% stake in the company, according to the report.





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Company Overview


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