By Sital S. Patel
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS +1.74% said Tuesday its second-quarter earnings were up 9% to $2.04 billion, or $4.10 a share, compared with $1.93 billion, or $3.70 a share, in the same period the year before. Total revenue was up 6% to $9.13 billion compared to $8.61 billion in the year-ago quarter. Analysts expected EPS of $3.05 on revenue of $7.97 billion, according to FactSet. Shares were up 1.6% in premarket trading. Investment banking revenues were up 15% to $1.78 billion, compared to $1.55 billion a year ago. Fixed income revenues were down 10% to $2.22 billion, from $2.46 billion a year ago.
