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Goldman gives peek into frenzy on trading desks

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. offered a glimpse into the March madness that propelled Wall Street trading desks to their best quarterly performance in almost a decade. The firm’s traders pulled in more than $100 million on 14 separate days during the first quarter, Goldman Sachs said in a regulatory filing. Volatile markets were a boon for the business, which ...

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ECB bond buying is a matter of time as debt balloons

Bloomberg It’s increasingly becoming a question of when, not if, the European Central Bank (ECB) will pump up its emergency bond buying program to help the most vulnerable euro-area economies avoid a deeper recession. With countries relying on borrowing to finance their response to the coronavirus pandemic, the ECB will likely take on more of that bond supply, as private ...

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Ryanair to slash 3,000 jobs, challenges $33b in state aid

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc will cut 3,000 jobs and said it will challenge some 30 billion euros ($33 billion) in state aid being doled out to keep its European competitors afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. The Irish discount carrier added to a mounting employment toll that includes 12,000 cuts at British Airways and 5,000 at SAS AB. The reductions represent ...

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