NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs fourth-quarter profits fell by 65 percent following last week’s $5 billion settlement with state and federal regulators over its role in the sale of troubled mortgages that led to the financial crisis. Goldman’s investment ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs employee pleaded guilty Thursday to obtaining confidential information from a one-time co-worker at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and distributing it to others at the investment bank. Rohit Bansal entered the plea in ...

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WASHINGTON  — Goldman Sachs has agreed to a settlement worth $1.2 billion to resolve claims that it misled U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about risky mortgage securities it sold them before the housing market collapsed in 2007. ...

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Goldman Sachs, the global investment banking firm, put out a report naming Charlotte and Jacksonville, Fla., as the two hottest new housing markets in the country, based on population growth, cheap land and economic fundamentals. And in the post-recession, still-recovering era, Goldman picked three national production homebuilders as good stock investments, predicting they would grow in value by as much as 24 percent this year. Two of them have been charging into the Charlotte market in major ways since the market bottomed out in 2010: Toll Brothers Ryland Group.

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I just finished reading "Why I Left Goldman Sachs," a revealing expose written by Greg Smith, a 12-year veteran.

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The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is making Bank of America a target in a campaign over what it calls unfair tax policies. Members of the group plan to rally outside the bank’s Charlotte headquarters today, the day federal income tax ...

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