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...dollars, driving interest rates on bank products abnormally high. At first glance, that's fantastic news for consumers who are finding CDs that yield 4% and money-market accounts that pay 3%. But the competition for money - which will surely intensify as new bank holding companies like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and American Express amp up efforts to attract deposits - is also squeezing banks' profit margins, further straining an already weak industry and stressing smaller banks, many of which didn't go hog wild making risky loans in the first place. "Higher rates are a short-term fix," says Camden...
...more competition is on the horizon. In the past two months, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, GMAC, American Express and business financier CIT have all applied to convert into bank holding companies, partly in order to be able to get access to cheap funding through deposits. GE Capital, the finance arm of GE, is planning on doubling its deposit base, which it garners through broker-sold CDs, to $81 billion next year. Goldman Sachs is on track to open an online bank. Morgan Stanley, which already has $36 billion in deposits, is selling billions of dollars' worth...
After getting his degree, Michael E. Kopko ’07 did what many recent college grads do—packed up his stuff and moved into an even smaller living space in New York. However, instead of choosing (selling his soul to) Goldman Sachs, he decided to gather some of his friends from high school and start his own company: GradeFund.com. GradeFund connects college students to sponsors who pay them for their good grades. Potential sponsors range from parents to prospective employers. People who pay you to get good grades? Sounds like parents...awesome parents. And this isn?...
...that a massive stimulus measure is needed--and soon. The éminence grise of Republican economic advisers, Harvard's Martin Feldstein, raised some eyebrows in October by saying the stimulus package might need to be as big as $300 billion. Already that seems timid. Jan Hatzius, chief economist for Goldman Sachs, is telling clients he expects Obama's stimulus package to be $400 billion to $500 billion a year in order to compensate for a retrenchment in personal spending. Regardless of the final size, here are some of the likely elements of Obama's plan...
...Goldman Sachs is one possible suitor. Its market capitalization of $21 billion is now slightly larger than Citigroup's. And at $53 a share, investors don't seem to be too worried about Goldman going under, yet. So Goldman could use its shares to finance an acquisition. What's more, Goldman might like to get its hands on Citi's $780 billion in bank deposits and 200 million customers. Goldman recently converted to a bank holding company and plans to start attracting bank deposits on its own. But opening up branches is costly. Buying Citi, even with its troubled assets...