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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Associated Press published a list of highest-paid public company executives out of S&P 500 index. 1. Larry Ellison, Oracle Corp. (ORCL), $84.6 mln2. John Thain, Merrill Lynch & Co. (MERPO), $83.1 mln3. Leslie Moonves, CBS Corp. (CBS), $67.6 mln4. Richard Adkerson, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 mln5. Bob Simpson, XTO Energy Inc. (XTO), $56.6 mln6. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., $65.3 million5. Bob Simpson, XTO Energy Inc., $56.6 million6. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., $53.9 million7. Kenneth Chenault, American Express Co., $51.7 million8. Eugene Isenberg, Nabors Industries Ltd., $44.6 million9. John Mack, Morgan Stanley, $41.7 million10. Glenn Murphy, Gap Inc., $39.1 million
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Wall Street is starting to worry about its golden child. Two analysts on Tuesday lowered their third-quarter earnings estimates for Goldman Sachs, the investment bank led by Lloyd Blankfein that has seemed to whistle past the recent credit crisis. The bearishness was relatively restrained; neither analyst was urging investors to dump the stock. But this being the [...]
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Volans Ventures Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
CRO Magazine has published its list of ’CEO of the Year’ awards nominees 2008, designed to spotlight and celebrate the achievements of the CEOs in Corporate Responsibility. The nominees range from Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs & Co., and Jeffrey R. Immelt of GE, among the nine nominees in the Large category, to Dr. Larry Brilliant of Google.org [...]
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Wall Street Journal have a shocking story today ,"Goldman is queried on Bear's fall" Apparently Alan Schwartz, who headed Bear Stearns Cos. at the tiome it sunk in March, called Goldman Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein to ask if there was any truth to talk that in the days preceding Bear Stearns's fall, if traders in the Goldman London office manipulated the struggling firm's...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Goldman Sachs, the most powerful investment bank on Wall Street, has found itself at the centre of a storm over the events that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns, as regulators issued subpoenas in the hunt for evidence of market manipulation.The heads of Bear Stearns and another beleaguered bank, Lehman Brothers, confronted the Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein with allegations that...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs has been questioned by chiefs of rivals Bear Stearns Cos and Lehman Brothers about speculation that the securities firm had a role in putting pressure on their firms' stocks, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday citing people familiar with their talk.Alan Schwartz, who headed Bear Stearns when it collapsed in March, has asked Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs has been questioned by chiefs of rivals Bear Stearns Cos and Lehman Brothers about speculation that the securities firm had a role in putting pressure on their firms' stocks, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday citing people familiar with their talk.Alan Schwartz, who headed Bear Stearns when it collapsed in March, has asked Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein...
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US News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It wasn't that long ago that America's most powerful financial executives were telling us that the ugly credit crisis was loosening its grip. "We're closer to the end than the beginning," Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told investors in April, just days before Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase's top executive, said the credit crisis was "maybe 75 percent to 80 percent" done. But those hopeful...
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Odd Numbers (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
What do Warren Buffett , Lloyd Blankfein , and Larry Ellison have in common? Besides being rich old white guys, they also happen to be summer babies -- which turns out to be a great thing for shareholders of the businesses they run. Although there are fewer chief executives born in the summer months of July through September than in any other season, the firms that these C.E.O.'s control...
