Exclusive: Goldman Sachs launches an AI-free index The product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.

#InvestmentBanks are trying to cash in on #Anti-AI sentiment! #GoldmanSachs just launched a new AI-free index, #SPXXAI, which lets you invest in the #S&P500 benchmark minus all things #AI.

www.axios.com/2026/02/20/a...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

Trump’s #ArgentineBailout is to help #InvestmentBanks and #Billionaires from losing money.
#BlackRock, #Fidelity & #Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as well as #StanleyDruckenmiller & #RobertCitrone, both of whom worked with #Trump Treasury Sec #Bessent.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

OK, I'm a cynic, but I can see two views on this:

1. "they would say that, wouldn't they?", i.e. they're lying.
2. It's technically true, but they're well aware of systemic risks in other areas. (Which they're distracting us from by talking about private credit.)

#markets #InvestmentBanks

#InvestmentBanks will buy the distressed farms. Corporate or family it doesn’t matter.

Two investment banks seek freedom from US SEC analyst research settlement NEW YORK (Reuters) -Piper Sandler and Stifel Financial (NYSE:SF) on Wednesday asked a judge to free them from "onerous" restrictions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s global settlement more than two decades ago with 12 investment banks over analyst conflicts. The $1.5 billion settlement in 2003 and 2004 addressed a scandal over analysts issuing positive research to help Citigroup (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley, the defunct Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and others win investment banking business. In a filing in Manhattan federal court, Piper and Stifel said they should not be bound to requirements in a related consent decree, including having to build "firewalls" between research and investment banking, while nearly all rivals are held to looser standards the SEC approved in 2015. Piper and Stifel said the disparate treatment makes it harder to compete with other middle-market banks, as well as large banks that are bound by the settlement but have much larger client bases and are better known globally. They also said the decree hurts the public interest because research may have different protections depending on which bank issued it, and smaller companies may struggle to raise capital because compliance costs mean some banks cannot afford to provide research coverage. "The consent decree has achieved its purpose," Piper and Stifel said. An SEC spokesperson declined to comment. Piper is based in Minneapolis, and Stifel is based in St. Louis. They are the respective successors to US Bancorp (NYSE:USB) Piper Jaffray and Thomas Weisel Partners, the smallest investment banks in the SEC settlement. The settlement had been engineered mainly by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, addressing alleged conflicts by analysts like Citigroup’s Jack Grubman and Merrill Lynch’s Henry Blodget. The cases are SEC v US Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 03-02942; and SEC v Thomas Weisel Partners LLC in the same court, No. 04-06910.

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The rally to end the week pushed 97 #stocks on the #UpOnVolume list this week. Top Industries are #Banks, #Biotech and #InvestmentBanks. Leading Sectors are #Finance, #HealthTech and #ElectronicTech.

Investment Banks Will Lose Billions of Dollars to Private Rivals Credit funds and electronic market makers keep winning more business from lenders. Only the biggest will be able to replace that lost revenue.

#InvestmentBanks to lose $50 Bln by 2027 to Credit funds & electronic market makers

Only the biggest #Banks will be able to replace 15/50 Bln via lending more to illiquid pvt markets, aka risky #ShadowBanking
Non-banks using borrowed money will worsen market shocks
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Like #LIBOR & #DarkPool fraud, #FX mkt rigging has gone on for yrs - openly condoned & rewarded by executive mgt at #investmentbanks #c4news