On the topic of the incestual relationship between companies and analysts, a funny situation happened last week.  After taking LinkedIn (LNKD) public in the mid $40s the stock shot up well over $100 before 'coming back to earth' in the $70s-$90s.  Despite a roughly doubling of valuation the investment bankers ...

The closely watched economist from Goldman, Jan Hatzius explains to CNBC late this afternoon, the same theory I've been pointing out.  The Fed is basically damned whatever path it goes - slow growth on one end, higher inflation on the other, especially the more it acts. 4 minute video ZeroHedge has ...

Those who have been reading along the past few months, know the situation in China in regards to copper.  As a way to get around the central government's plans to try to slow down the economy, copper was being used as a form of collateral in lieu of "money".  ...

Goldman Making Money From Special Situation Seen at Risk With Volcker Rule For Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ’s Special Situations Group, disasters can be a source of some of the biggest profits. Now the secretive investing operation faces its own potential calamity.

EMC: Goldman Pounds The Table EMC (EMC) shares are trading higher this morning after Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope repeated his Buy rating on the shares, lifted his price target to $33 from $31, and added the stock to the firm's Americas Conviction List.

Risk of 10% Stock Drop Tripled in a Month, Goldman Options Strategists Say The risk of a 10 percent U.S. stock slide by April tripled in a month, options prices show, amid rising oil prices that threaten the economic recovery and Japan’s biggest earthquake, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.

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This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of bailout buffets for Too Big to Fail banks; selling complexity to very profitable unsophisticated investors; the IMF is 'there to help Greece' . . . in a Dr. Kervorkian kind of way. In the second half of ...

www.guerillastocktrading.com In this stock market technical analysis news alert, Lance shows that the litigation against Goldman Sachs is not impacting the stock market. He also shows you a chart that has done the inverse of the stock market for the last 10 years and why you need to keep a ...

Goldman Sachs Said to Close Fixed-Income Prop-Trading Group Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the U.S. bank that relies on fixed-income trading for the largest portion of its revenue, will shut its Global Macro Proprietary Trading desk, a person familiar with the decision said.