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Bank Results Season: Goldman Sachs’ ends tryst with 2008? – $4.51 for 2011 ain’t a bad score | Insider Insight

The firm that has been variously called out as a giant vampire squid, comes close to reporting its lowest annual revenues since 2008′s $22 bln with the expected $28.88 bln revenues. Q4 revenues are almost unchanged from last year at

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, US

Facebook’s 500 shareholders | Advantage Dealbook

Are you one of the eager ones wanting to trade Facebook after the IPO? You can do so right now as long as the company does not file for one on Sharespost and Secondmarket among others. Goldman Sachs brokered the

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Posted in Financial Markets, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, Social Media, US

US Economy: The US Treasury Auction series: The 30-Y Bond flies through, dangerously low

While the store sales Index from Goldman Sachs had gloom on offer, already omnipresent.. the housing indices offer hopium(Thanks Zero @zerohedge)  ( if you can believe in QE3, you will take this with all econo-meals today, it’s so good! )

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Posted in Bailout Nation, Banking, Financial Markets, Investments, US

FOMC goes by on expected lines

As the Fed Statement after the Policy meeting Tuesday shows, there is nothing of note that bothered the Fed nor did it think anything of adding a pertinent buying of MBS bonds regardless of Citi and Bill Gross moving on

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Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, TARP, US

European Debt crisis: A silly note on a silly situation

Image by osipovva via Flickr Image by DonkeyHotey via Flickr Now that Mario Monti has upped the ante for Euro zone governments and we have covered the daily deterioratiion in a dozen articles, we won’t be covering more of the

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Posted in Banking, Bonds, China, European Sovereign Debt crisis, Financial Services, Global, Investments, iShares, US

A downgrade for US even as Moody's postpones the inevitable

S&P downgraded long term US debt to AA+ even as it maintained A1+ rating on short term instruments. The downgrade is headlined “On Political Risks and Rising Debt Burden” and the outlook is negative. S&P follows Dagong into a beat

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Posted in Amitonomics, US

America's dull date with Overspending, overstaffing and overages | Advantage zyaada

Far from being a AAA example to the world, America has been living on the brink for more than 2 years now, looking at Europe and keeping rolled up QE2 Dollars to make the dinner date a little bouncy and

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Posted in Amitonomics, TARP, US

Q3 Round up – Tech Deals stay down | Advantage zyaada

Image by J€RRY via Flickr For paucity of time, just quoting NYT, but we already said it here before the quarter was over. It is more likely to be Financial Services and Media deals esp in Asia and Africa, as

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Posted in Amitonomics, Dealbook, Financial Markets, Global, Media, Media and Entertainment, Mergers etc, Retail Lifestyle