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Goldman Sachs' Summer Intern Class Has Arrived [PHOTO]
It's that time of the year...The first group of Goldman Sachs U.S. interns arrived at the investment banking giant yesterday. You can see them at orientation in the photo below. Yesterday, Goldman...
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Bloomberg's Tom Keene Explains The Sheer Brutality Of Wall Street's Hardest Exam
On Saturday, more than 145,000 people in finance will sit for the Chartered Financial Analyst Exam (CFA). They are likely terrified.The three-level test is known for its incredibly wide range of...
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This Reuters Editorial Is The Most Stinging Indictment Of Wall Street Bankers...
Banker bashing as it was in 2008 and and 2009 has largely passed. Politicians don't refer to financiers as "fat cat banker," journalists aren't depicting banks as giant sea predators, and no one is...
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Batman Called Into A Company's Earnings Call To Get Them To Invest In A New...
Dealbreaker's Bess Levin unearthed this amazing gem from a company's earnings call transcript. An analyst named "Bruce Wayne" from Wayne Enterprises (a.k.a. Batman) called in to Archer Limited's first...
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7 Bars Where You Can Drink Your Sorrows Away After The CFA Exams
On Saturday over 145,000 financial professionals will take the hardest exam on Wall Street, the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.Many of them will fail. After the exam, almost all of them will think...
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23 Cringeworthy Quotes That Wall Streeters Probably Wish Were Never Made Public
No matter how many times embarrassing Wall Street emails, conversations, or tirades get made public, it never seems to stop. Even the most respected Wall Streeters can put their foot in their mouths...
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Wall Street's Toughest Exam Was Cancelled In Istanbul Because Of Protests
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam was held this weekend.The CFA is viewed by many as the hardest test for financial professionals. It requires about five to six months of rigorous...
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15 Style Tips That Wall Street Interns Have To Know
It's that time of the year. Wall Street summer internships have begun. Congratulations on scoring the position. Now it's time make sure you impress your peers and superiors with an appropriate...
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We Spent More Than $100 For Pancakes And French Toast At A Wall Street Power...
Sometimes, the only time to talk business is first thing in the morning, that's why the "power breakfast" is a time-honored tradition on Wall Street. And there are specific places where people do...
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TIMELINE: The Demise Of Investment Bank Gleacher
Beleaguered advisory boutique firm Gleacher & Co. shut down its investment banking business and hired a chief restructuring officer yesterday. The firm said in a release that it had hired...
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7 Reasons Why Wall Street Internships Are A Seriously Raw Deal
The banking summer analyst and associate season is nearly upon us. In a few weeks’ time the lucky few will be congregating in clusters on the streets of London and Manhattan and feeling – momentarily –...
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Lloyd Blankfein Gave This Super Thoughtful Speech To 1,000 College Graduates...
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein gave the keynote address at LaGuardia Community College's 41st commencement today at the Javits Center in Manhattan. He delivered his address to an audience of around...
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18 Ways Wall Street Interns Waste Time While Still Looking Busy
Editor's note: Last summer, one of our interns put together a great post on the ways Wall Street interns make themselves appear busy all day every summer. Since the season has officially started...
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A Goldman Sachs Partner, Who Testified On Capitol Hill, Is Selling His...
Goldman Sachs managing director/partner Michael J. Swenson (a.k.a. "Swenny") has put his Tuxedo Park, New York mansion on the market for $2.595 million, Curbed's Rob Bear reports.Swenson joined the...
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39-Year-Old Ex-Wife Of An 83-Year-Old Former Banker Is On Food Stamps And...
The 39-year-old ex-wife of an 83-year-old former Morgan Stanley vice president is now on welfare and she thinks that her ex-husband is hiding his millions, the New York Post's Julia Marsh reports....
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There's A Funny Sentiment Shift About Apple Stock On Wall Street Right Now
Earlier in the week I wrote a post previewing AAPL’s Word Wide Developers Conference (below) where the title suggested that expectations were high. Let me clarify a little bit, they are only high...
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Wall Street Research Has A New Problem
You probably know the story — in the '90s Wall Street got carried away (to say the least) with the tech boom and the Chinese wall between its analysts' research and investment banking was crossed.Since...
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Good News Or Bad News? Booz Allen Could Use A Few Good Wall Streeters
If you’re an unemployed, underpaid, morally ambivalent banker or ex-banker who’s fed up with the grunge of Wall Street or the City of London, you could be forgiven for thinking that Edward Snowden was...
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Sallie Krawcheck Says Wall Street Has Gone Backwards In The Advancement Of...
Former head of Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney Sallie Krawcheck, who now owns high-achieving women's network 85 Broads, spoke about women's leadership in the workplace. "I'm a buyer. I'm really a buyer...
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High Powered CEOs Are Hiring 'Sober Companions' To Keep Them Clean
The high-energy, high-stress, and high-pay Wall Street lifestyle attracts a special kind of adrenaline junky. In fact, all CEOs tend to need their fix.Unfortunately adrenaline junkies are also prone to...
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