Goldman Sachs profit falls 2% as trading revenue drops Goldman Sachs Group Inc."s quarterly profit fell 2 per cent as weak bond-trading volumes hit revenue in the Wall Street bank's biggest business. The fifth-largest U.S. bank by assets reported a third-quarter profit of $1.43-billion, or $2.88 per share. This compared with a profit of $1.46-billion, or $2.85 per share, a year earlier. Goldman increased its quarterly dividend to 55 cents per share from 50. Fixed-income trading was muted for several weeks leading up to the Federal Reserve's meeting in mid-September amid speculation that the central bank was about to start winding down its bond-buying stimulus program.