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...Lehman wasn't alone. Merrill Lynch lost nearly $20 billion on investments in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Morgan Stanley had a nearly $4 billion loss in proprietary trading in the fourth quarter of 2007. Goldman Sachs spent $3 billion to bail out one of its hedge funds. And Citigroup has poured more than $3 billion into fixing its problems with structured investment vehicles, investments the bank set up with its own capital. Like Merrill, Citi lost big - as much as $15 billion, on the CDOs it decided to hold rather than sell off. In fact, nearly every large financial firm...
...financial crisis was caused by the juxtaposition of regulators who really didn't believe in regulation, and excess leverage," says Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and a former chief executive of Goldman Sachs. "We need stricter, higher capital rules for the banks. That's a much better solution than trying to limit a type of business that is hard to define...
...number of financial firms, including Citigroup, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, say they have already exited proprietary trading, or at least limited their activities in that area dramatically. Goldman Sachs says proprietary trading makes up less than 10% of the firm's revenue. But many observers say the trading these firms do for their own accounts is much larger than they...
...problem is that Wall Street and Washington appear to have very different definitions of what is proprietary trading. Goldman and others are defining proprietary trading as the day-to-day money these firms risk in the markets, buying and selling stocks and bonds. Volcker seems to want to limit not just this trading but also the big long-term bets banks make on real estate, mortgages and other securities...
...analysis by Goldman Sachs suggests that while Ford is expected to gain some market share in the months ahead, Toyota will contribute relatively little. "We continue to view Chrysler and GM as being the largest source of share gains," it states, adding, "We expect a modest gain against foreign brands...