Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives were grilled by U.S. lawmakers who compared the bank’s mortgage bankers to bookies as Senator Carl Levin asked why they sold securities the company itself called “shitty.”
“How about the fact that you sold hundreds of millions of that deal after your people knew it was a shitty deal?” the Michigan Democrat asked Daniel Sparks, who ran the bank’s mortgage unit at the time. “Does that bother you at all?”
As the executives testified, Goldman Sachs was the only stock among 79 financial companies that gained in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The stock rose $1.01 to $153.04 as of 5:04 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
But if anything, the prime minister overdid the substance. His fondness for chanting statistics can be tiresome even to his most wonkish groupies. Its effect on better-adjusted people is positively soporific.
Mr Cameron appeared less tense than he did a week ago. Both parties tried to steal Mr Clegg’s anti-politician, outsiderish clothes, Mr Cameron insisting that the Conservatives were the party of change
and Mr Brown saying that the other two leaders reminded him of “young boys squabbling at bath-time”.
ブラウンは、キャメロンとニックを風呂でけんかしている子供みたいだ、と言った。
ここは、さすがブラウンって感じだったんですが。
The first half of the contest focused on foreign policy, traditionally thought to be a Lib Dem weakness. Unlike most of the British public, the party is instinctively Europhile.
Their plans to include Britain’s Trident nuclear missiles in a review of military spending scheduled after the election offer another line of attack (both Labour and the Tories have promised to protect the nukes).
自民党のトライデント核ミサイルの見直し論も労働党と保守党の反発っを誘った。
In the event, neither Mr Cameron nor Mr Brown managed to land a knockout blow. Both of the bigger parties were hamstrung by their support for Britain’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Only the Lib Dems opposed the war, a point that Mr Clegg was quick to make
Unlike last week’s contest, there was no clear tactical victory for anyone.
先週とはことなり、だれも小競り合いレベルでの明確な勝者は無し。
But as dawn broke the following morning, the election still felt like a three-horse race. That must count as a strategic victory for Mr Clegg. But can he pull off the hat-trick next week, when the focus shifts to the economy?
Comments vs4Q09
•Average loans, including impact of net charge-offs, declined $13 B compared to 4Q09 on a managed basis
前期と比べて償却含めて130憶ドル減った。はあ、まだ4半期で一兆円以上減ってるってことで。
•Consumer declines were led by average card receivables falling $7 B
•Commercial loans declined $8 B–Excluding impact of FAS 166/167 adoption commercial loans fell $13 B
Down in discontinued operations, as you know, in the third quarter 2008 we sold our finance company in Japan to Shinsei so since then we basically have an agreement where we share losses up to a certain amount. We had a $380 million reserve increase in the quarter on the Grey Zone liability for discontinued operations. Basically we update our models every quarter and the second quarter last year we added about $130 million to the reserves based on the claims we saw at the time.
If you think about the economy in Japan has been very tough. In addition, there’s recent and upcoming legislative and regulatory changes that are affecting Grey Zone claims in Japan and we saw increases in our overall claims over the last several months, as a result we updated our models, we booked to a range of what we think might happen in the future and we’ll keep you updated as we continue to monitor Grey Zone events going forward in Japan. That’s discontinued operations.
April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Coca-Cola Co., the world’s largest soft-drink maker, said first-quarter profit rose 20 percent, bolstered by sales in Latin America.
Net income increased to $1.61 billion, or 69 cents share, in the quarter ended April 2 from $1.35 billion, or 58 cents, a year earlier, the company said today in a statement.
コカコーラの利益が2割伸びたんだそうで。ラテンアメリカの増収が効いている。
Revenue rose 5 percent to $7.53 billion, the company said. Eight analysts predicted $7.72 billion, on average. Global sales by drink volume grew 3 percent, helped by a 4 percent increase in Latin America. Sales by drink volume in North America declined 2 percent.