GOLDMAN SACHS

As 2009 came to a close, Fifth Third Bancorp was preparing to report its sixth loss in seven quarters.

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California's Treasurer has sent a letter to six big banks that underwrite the state's municipal bond sales, asking what the banks' role may be in also selling credit default swaps on California debt.

America's big banks must be broken up and their risk-taking curtailed or the world's richest economy will face another massive financial crisis, former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson says in a new book.

The crumbling empire of American International Group Inc is helping to pave Wall Street with gold.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc was sued for alleged bias by a former vice president, who said the Wall Street bank consigned her to a mommy track that led to her firing while she was on maternity leave.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc was sued for alleged bias by a former vice president, who said the Wall Street bank consigned her to a mommy-track that led to her firing while she was on maternity leave.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.6 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.4 percent.

U.S. auto finance company GMAC Financial Services may sell its factoring business unit to Wells Fargo & Co , Bloomberg said, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The Obama administration's pay czar on Tuesday clamped down on 2010 pay at five U.S. firms that still depend on a government lifeline, but boasted that his burdensome restrictions are not sending talented workers fleeing for the exits.

Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg plans to review past compensation at 419 companies that received bailout funds, including JPMorgan Chase , Goldman Sachs , according to a source close to the Treasury Department.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc CEO Lloyd Blankfein and other top executives, pressured by public outrage to slash their bonuses, still received tens of millions of dollars in distributions from an internal investment fund in 2009.

Trading revenue at U.S. commercial banks fell 66 percent in the fourth quarter, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Friday, as uncertainty over pending derivatives legislation added to a seasonal slowdown in trading.

The head of the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee said on Friday he had asked the Federal Reserve to provide all documents relating to a rule waiver that allowed then-New York Fed Board Chairman Stephen Friedman to hold and purchase stock in Goldman Sachs Gorup .

Stocks were little changed in early trading on Tuesday ahead of a statement from the Federal Reserve on monetary policy and the state of the economy.

Wall Street was set for a slight rise at the open on Tuesday ahead of a Federal Reserve statement expected to reiterate the central bank's pledge to keep interest rates extraordinarily low.

On Wall Street, massaging the balance sheet is a time-honored practice.

Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book Liar's Poker, says Wall Street bonuses at banks bailed out by Washington are a very elegant form of theft.

The Greek debt crisis is poised to undermine already dwindling investment flows into south-eastern Europe's emerging economies, adding to barriers to recovery in one of the continent's most fragile regions.

CBOE Holdings Inc plans a $300 million public offering in a long-awaited move that could allow the biggest U.S. options exchange to expand or be acquired.

Shareholders may have to wait for months to retrieve capital after U.S. regulators told banks not to increase dividends or buy back shares amid political and economic uncertainty surrounding the financial industry, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.