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Risk and Insurance, 10 hours 44 minutes ago / Global investment banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc. finds itself in a dogfight with the New York Times and other media outlets, and for the first time the bank has mentioned negative media publicity as a risk factor in its 10-K filing for 2009.
Daily Intelligencer, 11 hours 38 minutes ago / Tired of impotently shaking your fist at the man?
PR-inside.com - Austria, 12 hours 30 minutes ago / Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog.
WirelessIQ, 15 hours 56 minutes ago / Goldman Sachs has slashed its sales estimate for Google's Nexus One after limited marketing, poor customer service and online-only availability of the device cut into sales.
BenefitsLink, 16 hours 43 minutes ago / International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 Pension Fund in Philadelphia filed suit against Goldman Sachs Group, accusing it of overpaying its executives while underpaying its shareholders and damaging its stock price.
Taipei Times, 17 hours 40 minutes ago / Goldman Sachs, the global investment banking and securities firm, is scheduled to hold a cross-strait technology summit in Taipei on March 22 that will bring together CEOs and heads of heavyweight technology companies in Taiwan and China, a spokeswoman for the company's Taipei office said yesterday.
BloggingStocks, 18 hours 44 minutes ago / Citigroup downgraded Abbott Labs ( ABT ) to sell from hold, citing profitability and pipeline concerns.
BloggingStocks, Mar 09, 2010 / Sony ( SNE ) closed at $36.75. SNE April put option implied volatility is at 29, July is at 30, and October is at 31; below its 26-week average of 34, according to Track Data, suggesting decreasing price movement.
24/7 Wall Street, Mar 09, 2010 / The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, a shareholder in Goldman Sachs (GS), filed a lawsuit in Delaware which accuses the investment bank of overpayment of its management and bankers. the union wants Goldman to give some of that money back to shareholders.
24/7 Wall Street, Mar 09, 2010 / Toyota (TM) said it found no electronic safety problems with its cars.
BloggingStocks, Mar 04, 2010 / The top investment bank in the business last year was JP Morgan Chase ( JPM ).
AOL Money & Finance, Mar 01, 2010 / NEW YORK -Goldman Sachs' board is rejecting demands by shareholders to investigate the Wall Street bank's compensation practices following allegations that it overpaid employees last year.
BloggingStocks, Feb 21, 2010 / A popular belief, since the blood flowed on Wall Street in September 2008, is that many of the financial crisis casualties simply left the financial services industry.
AOL Money & Finance, Feb 18, 2010 / LONDON -The practice wasn't secret and it wasn't illegal, and some of it happened 10 or 15 years ago.
BloggingStocks, Feb 18, 2010 / March put option implied volatility is at 31, April is at 32, versus its six-month average of 33, according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement.
BloggingStocks, Feb 17, 2010 / The transactions/swaps used by Greece were "legal at the time," Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said on Monday, Bloomberg News reported.
BloggingStocks, Feb 15, 2010 / According to John Fitzpatrick, a partner at Pension Corporation and a director of the new Longevity and Life Markets Association, "In the UK alone in the next 20 years, there is set to be a 60% increase in the number of retirees. This will create a huge financial risk to pension funds, governments and local authorities who run pension schemes."
BloggingStocks, Feb 15, 2010 / The movements in the cat bond market have contributed to a change at the top of the industry, as Goldman Sachs ( GS ) has passed Swiss Re as the world's second largest reinsurer.
BloggingStocks, Feb 12, 2010 / Of course Goldman Sachs is entitled to the resources of the justice system in its effort to protect its intellectual property: even intellectual property with as little redeeming social value as high-frequency trading.
ABC News, 18 minutes ago/ A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation's relentless security threat.
The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA, 26 minutes ago/ Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.
The Scotsman - Edinburgh - Lothian - UK, 2 hours 55 minutes ago/ IT HAS been heralded from all quarters as potentially the most exciting season in Formula 1 history, and now it is time for the 2010 campaign to live up to its billing.
ABC News, 9 hours 56 minutes ago/ President Obama postponed a planned trip to Asia today in order to stay in Washington during what looks to be the final showdown on the passage of a health care reform bill.
Houston Chronicle - Houston TX, 3 hours 46 minutes ago/ A debt crisis in that sun-splashed Aegean country has lately threatened the stability of the European Union and its powerful currency, the euro.