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Goldman Sachs is a global investment bank providing investment banking, trading, asset management, and research services to institutions.
Nscale's flagship Narvik data center is six months behind schedule with only 6.4 of 30 megawatts live, Bloomberg reported on October 15. Startup Fortune ties the shortfall to the listing Nscale filed for last month, a pitch built on turning Microsoft and Anthropic contracts into running GPUs.
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Meta, Lam Research and Texas Instruments report next week after the Philadelphia semiconductor index fell 8% so far in October. Goldman Sachs expects five hyperscalers to lift capital spending to about $1.2 trillion next year, and investors want proof that profit can outgrow it.
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Goldman data show Asia-focused stock pickers fell 2.6% and tech funds 2.0% on Oct. 15, the third day of 2026 all broad hedge fund strategies lost over 0.8%. Funds sold global AI stocks on net from Oct. 8 to 14, so the losses came on books already being cut.
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JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs raised yields on Volta's $5 billion unrated AI loan to about 11.21%-11.75% after weak demand, Crypto Briefing reported. The banks only have to try to sell the $3.712 billion GPU tranche, so its fate will show whether that price clears.
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Morgan Stanley reported third-quarter earnings of $3.03 a share, 7% above the $2.83 Zacks consensus, on $20.34 billion of net revenue. Equities trading gets credit for the lift, and the outlook for mergers and IPOs under rising rates is still open.
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Nasdaq is down 2.5% this week through Wednesday while the Dow is flat, as worries over debt-funded AI spending lead the selling. By CNBC Investing Club's figures it is still up 2.3% since Sept. 10 against a Dow down nearly 1%, so the week cut its lead from about 6 points to about 3.
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JPMorgan missed on both profit and revenue for the first time in nearly three years, booking $50.17 billion against $51.22 billion expected. Goldman beat by $1.97 billion, and three of the six big banks in Fortune's tally missed on revenue.
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Goldman's David Solomon said no one knows how AI capital demand will evolve, as Morgan Stanley's Ted Pick called its AI financing existential. A Hennessy Funds manager says banks often arrange the debt and distribute the risk, so the demand question lands with buyers.
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JPMorgan reported third-quarter EPS of $5.57 and said it would have been $5.75 without a $658 million securities loss. Quartz cites a Bloomberg consensus of $5.75 and Yahoo Finance $5.90, so the loss explains the miss in full or only in part.
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Wall Street's six largest banks booked a combined $22bn in third-quarter equity trading revenue, City AM reported. Goldman Sachs led with a 72% rise to $6.4bn on volatility and hedge-fund borrowing, and its chief executive says the peak is hard to call.
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report third-quarter results Tuesday, with Morgan Stanley and Bank of America following Wednesday. Oppenheimer has cut its investment banking revenue estimate by 9.5%, and a bank ETF is down 7.7% in a month, according to The Daily Upside.
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Flex Index data show US employers raised required office time 12% from early 2024 to late 2025, while attendance rose 1% to 3%. JPMorgan ended hybrid work and the Big Four kept it, so each employer is choosing a mandate whose return in attendance is small so far.
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Federated Hermes, which manages about $911 billion, plans to issue its first fund shares directly onchain. CoinDesk reported an early-2027 target, with Prometheum's broker-dealers providing custody, clearing and settlement.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,445 at midday Tuesday, up 3.1% from an $80,948 low after a liquidation wave. Wednesday's inflation report is the next test of whether JPMorgan's miss and the chip selloff drove the swing or leveraged positioning did.
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JPMorgan's asset and wealth division grew revenue 14% to $6.9 billion in the third quarter as fixed-income trading fell for the first time in two years. Wealth revenue grew 12% to 15% at three other banks, yet record equities trading and a higher interest-income outlook also offset the bond weakness.
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AI-linked corporate debt issuance reached about $450-500B in the first nine months of 2026, more than double prior years' pace, cryptobriefing reported. Goldman Sachs projects hyperscaler issuance could run toward $1T in 2027, tapping pension funds and insurers that also buy Treasuries.
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Brent crude traded near $105 a barrel as Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia met a temporary US waiver on Russian diesel. Goldman Sachs estimates the Gulf risk premium at just over $20 a barrel.
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Goldman Sachs will pay up to $2.25 billion for Neos, whose two flagship ETFs drew $28 billion in four years. Tax attorneys and some rival issuers told Bloomberg they struggle to square the funds' tax results with the code, and asked not to be named.
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi report Tuesday, then inflation data lands Wednesday and Thursday. Per CNBC, FactSet has S&P 500 third-quarter earnings on track for 29.6% growth, and the open question is executives' tone on fuel and borrowing costs.
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Brent crude fell 11 cents to $104.61 a barrel on Monday as Trump announced Russian diesel supply and an energy ceasefire that Russia has not commented on. The diesel is small against global demand and the truce is unverified, so the relief looks shallow.
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