Goldman Traders Never Had a Down Day
Being in the business of “facilitating clients,” as Gary Cohn likes to put it, seems like the most profitable game in town these days.
Goldman Sachs just revealed in an SEC filing that its traders made money on every single trading day last quarter, a record for the firm. Net revenue for trading was $25 million or higher in all of the first quarter’s 63 trading days with 35 of those days bringing in more $100 million, according to the filing.
Carl Levin is no doubt already preparing a hearing on whether anyone on the other sides of these trades got a “shitty deal.”
“It will reinforce the heads we win, tails you lose mentality that people think actually exists and promotes the concept of an unfair advantage,” said Douglas Ciocca, a managing director at Renaissance Financial Corp. in Leawood, Kansas, which oversees about $2 billion in assets including Goldman Sachs shares. “It’s too politically charged not to, how is that possible that they only make money?”
