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...Goldman reached this trading climax with the help of TARP funding," says analyst David Hendler, who follows Goldman and other financial firms for CreditSights. In a report to clients, Hendler wrote that subsidized funding from the government has "manufactured" these outsized gains for Goldman. "Goldman's results were unbalanced and . . . . due to extremely high risk taking...
...Goldman said that much of its increased trading was to execute client orders, and not trades the bank was making solely on its own. During a conference call with analysts and investors, Goldman CFO David Viniar said that most of Goldman's trading profits came from such liquid investments as Treasury bonds and not in the trickier markets for subprime mortgage bonds or credit default swaps, which can be harder to buy and sell. Goldman said it made very little money from CDS contracts it settled with AIG, but declined to comment exactly how its trading profits were generated...
...specific impact of temperature on tree mortality during drought - and it indicates that in a warmer world trees are likely to be significantly more vulnerable to the threat of drought than they are today. "This raises some fundamental questions about how climate change is going to affect forests," says David Breshears, a professor at UA's School of Natural Resources and a co-author of the PNAS paper. "The potential for lots of forest die-off is really there...
...been a social planner for as long as I can remember,” Sidwell said. “Ever since middle school or even elementary school, I’ve been planning social events.” Sidwell will work closely with Assistant Dean of the College David Friedrich and Judith Kidd, Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities, to sustain the range of social activities offered to students. “Sarah brings tremendous experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm to this position and we know that her talents will benefit students immensely,” Friedrich said...
...David L. Orama...