Cu ochii pe GS

Despre baietii de la Goldman Sachs am mai atras si eu atentia de cateva ori pe AICI. E vorba de o companie aflata in mijlocul majoritatii intrigilor majore de pe bursa americana si internationala.

In ultima vreme, tot mai multi incep sa ia aminte. Articolul pus de Dan aici a aparut din cate stiu prima data pe Zero Hedge

With a subtitle like "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again" run, don't walk, to your nearest kiosk and buy Matt Taibbi's latest piece in Rolling Stone magazine. One of the best comprehensive profiles of Government Sachs done to date. Speaking of GS, they sure must be busy today, now that Bernanke is about to be impeached and take the fall for all their machinations.

Apoi mi-a dat B link-ul catre un alt articol de la noi pe aceeasi tema: Cum să faci bani în criză – un autor american descrie secretele Goldman Sachs

Teorii ale conspiraţiei, coincidenţe stranii sau adevăr crunt?

Marea majoritate a celor ce răspund de finanţele americane – atât în timpul lui Bush, cât şi sub actuala administraţie Obama – sunt „absolvenţi” de Goldman Sachs.

„Marea maşinărie americană de făcut baloane de săpun” – este numele cărţii lui Matt Taibi, autorul care a stârnit un scandal enorm în Statele Unite după ce a descris mecanismul prin care mările bănci şi în special Goldman Sachs controlează finanţele mondiale şi cum se pregătesc să dea acestora o nouă lovitură. Cartea descrie toate „maşinaţiunile” făcute de Goldman Sachs de la Marea Depresie şi până în prezent, relatează portalul The Huffington Post.

Ultima "aventura" cu GS in "rol principal" era cea de aici: Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs' secret sauce?

The charges, if proven, are significant because the codes that the accused, Sergey Aleynikov, tried to steal are the secret sauce to Goldman's automated stock and commodities trading business. Federal authorities contend the computer codes and related-trading files that Aleynikov uploaded to a German-based website help this major financial institution generate millions of dollars in profits each year.

The platform is one of the things that gives Goldman an advantage over the competition when it comes to the rapid-fire trading of stocks and commodities. Federal authorities say the platform quickly processes rapid developments in the markets and using secret mathematical formulas, allows the firm to make highly-profitable automated trades.

Ce faceau de fapt programele de care a fost acuzat Sergey A. ca le-ar fi subtilizat ? In ultima vreme au inceput sa apara zvonuri si pe aceasta tema. Si cum de obicei nu iese fum fara foc...

Goldman Code Theft BOMBSHELL?

...GS, through access to the system as a result of their special gov't perks, was/is able to read the data on trades before it's committed, and place their own buys or sells accordingly in that brief moment, thus allowing them to essentially steal buttloads of money every day from the rest of the punters world.

Two things come out of this:

1. If true, this should be highly illegal, and would, in any sane country result in something like what happened to Arthur Andersen...

(2. ... is way off point....)

This may be nothing more than a crazy conspiracy theory put out by someone at Daily Kos. But consider the following:

The last few days the the market has traded "organically." I and many other market participants have noted that prior to the week before July 4th the market had been acting "very odd" - normal correlations between interest rate, foreign exchange the the stock markets had been on "tilt" for the previous couple of months, with the amount of "tiltage" increasing dramatically in the last three or four weeks. In fact, many of my usual indicators that I use for daytrading had become completely useless. Suddenly, just before the July 4the weekend, everything started correlating normally again. I have no explanation for this "light-switch" change but it aligned almost exactly with the day the NYSE had "computer problems" and extended trading by 15 minutes. Was there a configuration change made to their networking infrastructure, one asks?

Zerohedge's information, if you believe it, seems to point toward some sort of distortion. The cite above claims statistically "as likely as an asteroid hitting earth it is not true" proof of distortion in the market. I have not analyzed the data to independently validate that conclusion, but even if the odds of these "effects" in the market being random chance are only as good as getting hit by a tornado this afternoon......

Iar in final, cireasa de pe tort aparuta ieri: Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say

Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery. Then there is Goldman Sachs.

Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money, will report blowout profits from trading on Tuesday.

Analysts predict the bank earned more than $2 billion in the March-June period, thanks to its trading prowess across world markets. If they are right, the bank’s rivals will once again be left to wonder exactly how Goldman, long the envy of Wall Street, could have rebounded so dramatically only months after the nation’s financial industry was shaken to its foundations.