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Fabrice Tourre listens before testifying at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ''Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: The Role of Investment Banks'' on Capitol Hill in Washington April 27, 2010 file photo.

By Ben White WELCOME TO FED DAY: HOW DOVISH WILL BERNANKE BE? - Big moment for the Fed today as the central bank releases its latest statement on rate policy and Ben Bernanke steps to the microphone to face questions on when and under what circumstances QE3 will start to come to an end.

Growing Stock Report expands its NYSE Gainers Weekly Watch List adding Realty Income Corp. and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. .

Turkish Airlines is all about promoting golf with it's annual World Golf Final each fall in Turkey, but they are also looking to reward some amateur golfers with a trip to Turkey for the professional event.

SunGard Data Systems Inc, the computer software maker that was taken private in 2005 for $11.4 billion, is exploring a sale of its data managing operations that could fetch up to $2 billion, several people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. announced today that it has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement to its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 and has today made a similar filing with securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada in connection with a public offering of its common shares to raise ... (more)

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Major U.S. stock markets were gaining Monday buoyed by better-than-expected manufacturing and housing reports amid speculation that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to curb its stimulus measures when the bank's two-day meeting begins Tuesday.

Goldman Sachs plans to announce this week that it will finance an early education program in Utah - and it expects to make money on the venture.

Unfortunately for Bank of America shareholders, just having the best business model in theory doesn't guarantee operational or financial success.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein met this month with the top U.S. securities regulator to discuss issues including the Volcker rule and regulations for money-market mutual funds.

While government spying on citizens has been a hot topic of conversation lately, it's worth noting that such snooping can also happen in the private sector.

The latest outrage by the White House on behalf of Wall Street and the titans of finance was the firing of Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler for his absolutely necessary aggressive tactics to police the exploding international derivatives marketplace.

Fed Likely to Push Back on Market Expectations of Rate Increase "The market is saying, 'The fundamental economic outlook really hasn't changed much, but we are getting more worried about Fed policy,'" says Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

Thanks to everyone who packed the house for yesterday's breakfast briefing with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Certainly, there were plenty of direction changes on this one, including in Tokyo equities , which added 1.9%, recovering some of their ground lost in the last session's drubbing, when they plunged more than 6%, taking them officially into bear-market territory.

The chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs blames the lagging U.S. economy on Americans' negativity, which he has partly attributed to Congress and the media.

Platts to host a conference 7th Annual Texas Energy Markets Conference is being held in Dallas, Texas on June 11-12.

According to Goldman Sachs chief executive officer Lloyd Blankfein, this is what happens when "somebody who was assigned to Goldman Sachs didn't have anything good enough to write for a while."