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...blocks, McFadyen paints rundown roadside bars and sports stadiums, while Auerbach obsessively records the environs of his London studio. Swann, 33, will start a postgraduate course at London's Royal College of Art in a few months. He studied European finance and accountancy at Leeds Metropolitan and worked for Goldman Sachs before returning to painting seven years ago. His current subjects are artificially illuminated football fields, squash courts, sports pavilions, golf driving ranges. His walk home after dark from a former studio "took me past all these sports complexes and football pitches. These places seemed to have a different dynamic...
...trust moved the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) last week to propose rules requiring that a majority of a company's directors have no ties to the company and that shareholders approve all stock-option plans. Henry Paulson, the normally low-profile chairman and CEO of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (Tyco's financial adviser), was one of many business leaders ringing the bell for reform. "American business has never been under such scrutiny. To be blunt, much of it is deserved," Paulson said in a speech calling for curbs on when a CEO can profit by selling company stock...
...traditional Royal Mail, a bargain at $1.4 million. Making Payment Count George Soros, the financier, launched a campaign to prevent billions of dollars of oil and mining payments from being stolen in developing countries each year. The campaign will push for increased transparency on royalty payments. The Rating Game Goldman Sachs became the first major bank to contest the downgrades of Japan's credit rating by Moody's, Fitch and Standard & Poor's. Goldman Sachs said Japan is not a default risk and deserves an Aaa rating instead of A2, which places it below Botswana. BOTTOM LINES "A hedgehog could...
...gasoline will go down if the euro is strong. But what really counts is why the currency is rising in the first place. "I think we're in a situation where the euro goes up because the dollar goes down," says Thomas Mayer, chief economist at investment bank Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "The biggest worry is that a sharp appreciation of the euro reduces profit expectations in European industry and leads to a broadly based weakness." Take a German-based manufacturer of machine tools, for example. With the euro higher, the price of the company's goods on the world...
...noted that during his tenure at Goldman the company did not even have an organization chart; this allowed the bank to be more flexible in responding to changing situations, he said...