Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc., once the most profitable firm on Wall Street, reported a 47 percent increase in third-quarter earnings as revenue from bond trading surpassed analysts’ predictions. Net income rose to $2.09 billion, or $4.88 a share, from $1.43 billion, or $2.90, a year earlier, the New York-based company said. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, 62, has ...

  Bloomberg BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, said third-quarter profit rose 3.8 percent as the firm cut costs while assets under management increased. Net income increased to $875 million, or $5.26 a share, from $843 million, or $5, a year earlier, according to a statement on Tuesday. Adjusted earnings of $5.14 a share beat the $4.98 average estimate ...

  Bloomberg Chinese central bank Deputy Governor Fan Yifei talked up the importance of asset-management firms created to clean up bad loans at a briefing on Sunday, saying that they played a key role in reducing corporate leverage. Speaking in Beijing at the launch of a restructured China Orient Asset Management, a bad-loan manager backed by the Finance Ministry and ...