For the first time in more than two decades as a publicly traded company, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. laid out a detailed strategic vision and financial ambitions to investors. Corporate slogans aside, the big reveal is that Goldman will be playing catch-up for some time. The Wall Street titan presented plans to add $5 billion of revenue and improve profitability ...

Just a few weeks ago, optimism was palpable in the heart of Shanghai’s financial district. UBS Group AG’s annual China conference enjoyed a record turnout and investors from abroad were enthusiastically buying mainland shares — so much so that some hit foreign-ownership limits. Now all anyone can think about is the number of coronavirus cases. The Shanghai Composite Index slid ...

Remember when we all believed in Emmanuel Macron? The question comes not from an angry trade unionist but a stand-up comedian in central Paris, facing a crowd of thirty-something urbanites cut from the same cloth as France’s 42-year-old president. A collective groan of “yes” rises from the audience, many of whom spent the winter struggling through transport strikes triggered by ...

China’s Luckin Coffee Inc. hasn’t been having much luck lately. The last thing a retail business in the middle of a breakneck expansion needs is a deadly virus that keeps consumers off the streets and away from malls. What could be more damaging? Perhaps an attack by short-sellers branding your business a fraud. Shares in Nasdaq-listed Luckin Coffee plummeted 11% ...

Europe’s banks have come a long way since the euro zone crisis. Lenders have halved their piles of non-performing loans from 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in 2014 to 543 billion euros in the third quarter of 2019. However, markets still doubt lenders’ real strength, as you can see from their depressed price-to-book ratios. The blame falls, in part, on ...

Bloomberg Stocks rallied globally and bonds slipped amid hopes for a breakthrough in fighting the coronavirus. Crude oil advanced with industrial metals. Futures on the three main American indexes all turned higher and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rebounded after a string of reports on possible vaccines or treatments for the deadly pathogen. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index climbed ...

Bloomberg For Vietnamese stock investors, the return from the Lunar New Year break has been almost as bad as for their Chinese counterparts. Mounting concerns that trade disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak will have a deep impact on the Southeast Asian nation have pushed the benchmark VN Index down more than 6% since January 30. That’s the world’s worst ...

Bloomberg Global central bankers are biding their time as the coronavirus fallout reverberates through the world economy, which they had hoped was stabilising after its worst year since the financial turmoil of 2009. While yet to respond with major stimulus, monetary policy makers across the globe have expressed concern and signalled a willingness to act if the virus delivers a ...

Bloomberg The power struggle at Credit Suisse Group AG escalated as two top shareholders urged Chairman Urs Rohner to leave unless he publicly supports Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam in the wake of a spying scandal. David Herro, who helps oversee the investments of Credit Suisse largest shareholder Harris Associates, accused Rohner of “trying to push Mr Thiam out of ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S expects its profits to plunge this year as Denmark’s biggest lender continues to grapple with the consequences of its money-laundering scandal. Net profit for 2020 will be between 8 billion kroner ($1.18 billion) and 10 billion kroner, compared with 15.1 billion kroner in 2019, the Copenhagen-based bank said on Wednesday. Danske’s shares fell as much as ...