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  • 20 Jul 2010

Goldman Earnings and Revenue Fall

Those master traders at Goldman Sachs didn’t see it coming, either.The “flash crash” and the rest of the stock market madness in May and June, as well as the cost of settling an embarrassing civil fraud suit, hammered Goldman’s second-quarter profits. Earnings plunged 82 percent.The results were Go...

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