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...firm's bets are paying off. On Monday, Goldman said that it had made nearly $2 billion in the first three months of this year alone. But some analysts say Goldman, which received $10 billion from the government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is generating most of those profits by making risky bets on interest rates and other fluctuations in the financial markets with money it has received from the government. Goldman says it would like to pay back its TARP loans as soon as possible, and on Tuesday the company raised $5 billion in a stock offering that...
...Goldman Sachs gambling with government funds? During the first quarter, the investment bank greatly increased the amount of trading risk it takes in the market. Should those wagers go sour, Goldman could lose heavily, and so could taxpayers...
...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...
...economy worsened, those demands have faded. AIG, Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms have come under fire for paying out rich bonuses to executives despite receiving billions in government assistance. In response, lawmakers have tightened executive compensation rules for banks that have received TARP funds. While Goldman's profits are sure to raise eyebrows, it is not clear that it did anything wrong...