investment banks

Those that remember the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession brought on by high risk mortgage lending may remember that two of the biggest investment banks, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros., collapsed in similar fashion roughly 6 months apart. Since the SVB, Signature, and First Republic Bank collapses, there...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) is reaching out to the Chinese authorities seeking approval for the acquisition of a 100% stake in its China joint venture, the Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities Co. (GSGH). According to the Wall Street Journal, the investment bank has already signed...

Jefferies Group, the global full-service investment banking firm that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE: LUK), reported on Tuesday its first-quarter financial results. The performance of investment bank and other advisory firms are being closely looked at by some who...

Many investors and traders have heard the term "quiet period" but fail to understand what it is and how it can affect a stock.   Quiet Period Defined U.S. securities laws dictates that investment bank firms who work on an initial public offering are not allowed to issue...

As emerging markets continue to show signs of struggling, investment banks are pulling the plug on some of their operations. Bloomberg reported investment banks such as UBS (NYSE: UBS)and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) have spent the past three years re-thinking their plans in India. The investment...