After purchasing a traditional market making firm as part of a larger acquisition for $5.4 billion in 2000, a major investment bank is now attempting to sell it for a significant loss at nearly $30 million. Goldman Sachs Group inc (NYSE:GS) is negotiating with Dutch-based IMC Financial Markets to shed its NYSE floor-based brokerage unit, according to a Bloomberg report. While the unit is floor based, all market making integrates with the electronic markets — an increasingly controversial topic. When Goldman Sachs Group inc (NYSE:GS) COO Gary Cohen wrote what was considered a radical opinion piece in the Wall Street…
Goldman Sachs' Exit From Market Making Sending A Signal
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.