NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs saw its third-quarter earnings fall 33%, with the investment bank seeing muted market conditions that allowed fewer deals and market making opportunities for the firm.
The bank is selling off its GreenSky business, which the bank had to write off this quarter.
The bank saw a 1% rise in investment banking revenues from last year, and its trading business of bonds, currencies and commodities was down 6% in the period.
The bank's return on equity, a measurement on how well an investment bank is performing with the assets they hold, was 7.1% in the quarter.
Historically in the past decade or so, banks like Goldman aim to get that measurement above 10%.
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