高盛利润翻番难阻股价下挫

    很多分析师就最近提议的一项监管规定询问高盛首席财务官施瓦茨，这项规定要求美国大银行应持有充足的资本金以覆盖银行总资产至少缩水5%的需要。拥有大量存款的银行或许必须持有相当于资产总额6%的资本金。摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）、花旗集团（Citigroup）和富国银行（Wells Fargo）都已提供了各自的杠杆比率数据。一些人估计，高盛可能需要筹集50亿美元，才能达到提议监管条例中的资本金要求。

    但施瓦茨拒绝给出高盛的杠杆比率数据，只是透露，他对于当前的状况很“安心”。

    很多分析师都提起了这项新的监管规定，法国农业信贷银行(Credit Agricole)分析师迈克•梅奥是其中的一位。他说：“安心”就是当日热词。但你说的是，相信你们，你们会处理好的，不过却避而不谈竞争对手都公布的数字。你们在信息披露方面已经落后于竞争对手。你能给我们一个你们超出或者说没达到的数字吗？”

    “你在寻找‘安心’的灰色地带，”舒瓦茨回答说。“我要说的是，我觉得非常安心。我不想轻率地回答你的问题。”（财富中文网）

    A number of analysts asked Goldman's CFO Schwartz about a recently proposed regulation that would require the nation's largest banks to have available enough capital to cover at least a 5% drop in the bank's overall assets. Banks with a large amount of deposits might have to hold capital equal to 6% of their assets. JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C), and Wells Fargo (WFC) have all given rough estimates about what their so-called leverage ratio would be. Some have estimated that Goldman would have to raise as much as $5 billion in order to meet the proposed capital rule.

    Schwartz, though, declined to put a number on Goldman's leverage ratio, only saying he was "comfortable" with what it is.

    Credit Agricole analyst Mike Mayo, one of a number of analysts to bring up the new regulation, said, "Comfortable appears to be the word of the day. But what you are saying is trust us we'll be there, and not disclosing a number that all of your peers have done. On a disclosure basis, you are behind your peers. Can you give us a number that you are above or below?"

    "You are looking for shades of grey on comfortable," Schwartz replied. "I would say pretty comfortable. I'm not trying to be flippant with you."