Word: goldmans
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...abandoned docklands to the east of the City in recent years, is already home to Citigroup, HSBC and Bank of America. And on Aug. 1, JPMorgan ditched plans to build its European headquarters in the City in favor of a development across town in Canary Wharf. (Rivals Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch remain in the City, though...
...business establishment-in-formation, and in style and attitude, it could not be more different from the one bidding its Western counterparts farewell at the Jianfu Palace. Many, of course, have been educated in the West, and worked there. (SOHO's Zhang went to Oxford and worked at Goldman Sachs.) The point is not that they are merely comfortable in hip, international settings. They are creating them...
...practices what he preaches. Lured to Treasury from Goldman Sachs two summers ago by a President in need of domestic-policy credibility, Paulson has grabbed the rudder of a $14 trillion national economy churning its way through a maelstrom. There's always a danger in attributing too much economic impact to one government official, and Paulson certainly shares responsibility with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Congress - and with his boss, President George W. Bush. But if there is one person whose actions right now will determine whether the combination of crashing house prices, struggling lenders and punishingly high energy...
...Paulson, 62, came to the job with a bit of Washington experience, dating to the Nixon White House. He had just spent seven years running Goldman Sachs, the current cream of Wall Street firms (and also the place that prepared Robert Rubin for his successful 1990s tenure at Treasury). But the key to understanding Paulson's approach is that he spent the bulk of his career not as a manager but as an investment banker. What a good investment banker does is build relationships - chiefly with the CEOs of companies whose business he is courting, but also with anybody else...
...case unrelated to that of Levine, two weeks ago pleaded guilty to charges of insider trading and obstructing justice. In that turbulent climate, the Wall Street Journal stirred up instant thunder last week by claiming that unnamed investment bankers at the houses of Lazard Freres and Goldman Sachs were under SEC investigation in the Levine scandal. Officials at both firms promptly denied the report. One man that Government sources affirm is under investigation, however, is Robert Wilkis, 37, a former vice president at both Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton. Wilkis resigned from his Hutton post earlier this month. While...