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DailyFinance, 7 minutes ago / Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS-D) is shutting down its principal strategies unit, as the company seeks to better comply with U.S. regulations that discourage excessive risk-taking by investment banks, Bloomberg News reported , citing two unnamed sources familiar with the process.
DailyFinance, 8 minutes ago / Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS-D) is shutting down its principal strategies unit, as the company seeks to better comply with U.S. regulations that discourage excessive risk-taking by investment banks, Bloomberg News reported , citing two unnamed sources familiar with the process.
FT.com, 23 minutes ago / Baseball legend and inadvertent philosopher "Yogi" Berra quipped that "it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future".
CNN Blogs, 39 minutes ago / On Friday, bullish investors glanced out the window cautiously, as rays of sunshine broke through dark storm clouds.
TheStreet.com, 1 hour 37 minutes ago / Stocks rallied Friday, and the Dow finished with another triple-digit gain after the government offered a much less dour assessment of the labor market than had been feared.
New York Observer - New York NY, 3 hours 32 minutes ago / Picture a vicious cycle of financial backscratching that results in an increasing systemic fragility, and you've got the basic premise for how a decent portion of the credit market works.
The Cut - New York Magazine, 3 hours 37 minutes ago / Monique Péan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in '03, but she didn't really know what she wanted to do with her life, so she did what many bright, overachieving, unsure Ivy League grads do, and took a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
24/7 Wall Street, 4 hours 49 minutes ago / Perhaps the biggest news of the week was that J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was closing down its proprietary trading operations.
StreetInsider.com, 11 hours 32 minutes ago / Goldman Sachs raised their price target on Acme Packet, Inc. (Nasdaq: APKT ) from $29 to $33 following a meeting with management, but is keeping a Neutral rating on valuation.
Dress Barn, Sep 02, 2010 / EUR/USD is stuck in a consolidation period ahead of the Non-Farm Payroll data tomorrow.
PR-inside.com - Austria, Sep 02, 2010 / Commonwealth and its affiliates are ultimately wholly owned subsidiaries of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Goldman Sachs).
TMCnet, Sep 02, 2010 / On Wednesday, September 22, 2010, Michael J. Angelakis, Chief Financial Officer of Comcast ( News - Alert ) Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK), will participate in the 19th Annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York City. A live webcast of the event will be available on the Company's Investor Relations website at www.cmcsa.com or www.cmcsk.com on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 11:20 A.M. Eastern Time. An on-demand replay will be available shortly after the conclusion of the presentation.
Insurance News Net, Sep 02, 2010 / French insurance company Axa (EPA:CS) sold 14m shares in Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) in the first half of 2010, reducing its stake in the US investment bank to 2.8% from 4.8%.
Telegraph - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ The attack comes amid two days of fighting that have killed at least 40 civilians and wounded more than 130 in the capital according to Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu's ambulance service.
The Seattle Times - Seattle WA, Aug 24, 2010/ A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday outside Nepal's capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.
MarketWatch, Aug 24, 2010/ Scottish-headquartered oil exploration group Cairn Energy reported Tuesday that it sharply reduced net losses for the first half of the year, saying its first well in Greenland is showing signs of promise.
The Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach FL, Aug 24, 2010/ World stock markets retreated Tuesday as the strong yen knocked Japanese shares and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week.
The Daily Mirror - London - UK, Aug 24, 2010/ Two Britons were rescued from a horrifying bus siege in which eight hostages died yesterday after a sacked policeman made a crazed attempt to get his job back.