Goldman Sachs CEO sends blunt message to stock market investors
Key takeaways
- Goldman Sachs CEO sends blunt message to stock market investors Hillary Remy Mon, June 8, 2026 at 1:33 AM GMT+7 6 min read GS David Solomon was asked about market conditions at the Economic Club of New York on June 2.
- Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC's Leslie Picker that markets are currently driven more by appetite for returns than by concern about risk.
- The immediate context was Alphabet's $80 billion equity raise, the largest follow-on equity deal ever completed.
Goldman Sachs CEO sends blunt message to stock market investors Hillary Remy Mon, June 8, 2026 at 1:33 AM GMT+7 6 min read GS David Solomon was asked about market conditions at the Economic Club of New York on June 2. He paused before answering, then told the room he knew what he was about to say would get quoted.
What followed was one of the most direct assessments of investor psychology any major bank CEO has offered publicly this year, and it arrived at a moment when the AI capital- raising wave is producing deals on a scale Wall Street has never seen before.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC's Leslie Picker that markets are currently driven more by appetite for returns than by concern about risk. "We are definitely in a moment where there's more greed than there is fear," he said. "That's one of the reasons why people that need this capital are coming to the markets, because the capital is available," according to Bloomberg.