$GS
4 long-form articles and 18 pre-market mentions covering $GS from AskMelon Research.
Loosening the Bolts
America's six biggest banks have added six hundred billion dollars of market value in a single year, vaulting their combined worth past two-and-a-third trillion dollars, and the engine of the rally is…
The Nobel Laureates Who Almost Took Down Wall Street
A meditation on Long-Term Capital Management's 1998 collapse, the trillion-dollar leveraged book on a four-billion-dollar equity base, and the rehearsal for 2008.
The Synthetic CDO That Was Designed to Fail
A meditation on the 2010 Abacus settlement, the structuring conflict of interest the SEC made an example of, and the structural issue underneath that the settlement did not resolve.
The Family Office That Took Down Credit Suisse
A meditation on Bill Hwang's Archegos, the total-return swap structure that hid forty-to-ninety billion dollars of concentrated exposure, and the four-day cascade that ended a 167-year-old Swiss bank.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
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Thursday, October 15, 2026
Wednesday's hot CPI (3.7% headline beat consensus of 3.6%, but core MoM +0.33% versus the 0.2% expected — the real shock) delivered the S&P's worst session since late July (−1.11% to 7,718.94), a KOSP…
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
The session that resolves two weeks of CPI anxiety finally arrives: Sep CPI at 8:30 AM ET is the last inflation print before the Oct 27–28 FOMC, and an overnight Houthi missile strike on Aramco's Dhah…
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
The biggest bank earnings morning of Q3 season split its verdict: JPMorgan missed on both EPS and revenue for the first time in eight consecutive quarters while UnitedHealth delivered a blowout beat t…
Monday, October 12, 2026
Columbus Day opens the most consequential earnings week of Q3 season — JPM, WFC, GS, and C report tomorrow BMO in the single largest bank-earnings day since Q2, while Sep CPI lands Wednesday with cons…
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. The week the Iran ceasefire stopped being a rhetorical feint and became a real war again: over the weekend of July 11-12, CENTCOM struck more than 140 Iranian site…
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
ASML's €9.33B Q2 blowout and a June CPI print of +3.5% YoY — the largest single-month inflation decline since April 2020 — land together as the clearest simultaneous bull signal this market has seen i…
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The US Naval blockade of Iranian ports, announced for 4 PM ET today, converts the week's dominant geopolitical narrative from "Hormuz closure declaration" to "enforced blockade with legal and commerci…
Friday, July 10, 2026
The week's defining moment arrives this morning: SK Hynix's $26.5B Nasdaq debut opens as SKHYV at $158.14 — a +6.1% first-print against the $149 offer price — validating the AI-memory investment thesi…
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The last session of a powerful quarter opens quiet-but-constructive: after Monday's broad rally carried the Dow to its first-ever close above 52,000, futures are modestly green, Asia's memory names cl…
Saturday, June 13, 2026
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Saturday, May 23, 2026
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
15 from generic Saturday template, 15 from memory of this week's daily reports. Total: 30 web searches.
Monday, April 13, 2026
The blockade is real. The damage is priced. Now what?
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Your Saturday morning market coffee. Feet up, portfolio open.