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I am hugely, hugely optimistic about this technology and the impact that this technology can have on large scale enterprises like Goldman Sachs, and the productivity gains that it can create, which I…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I think you're going to see more companies issue equity because, you know, this is not capital is available, and you want to be cautious about this if you get it wrong, if you totally rely on debt…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I do think we've created a regulatory structure and a market structure that really makes it unattractive to go public until you have to. The reason these companies are going public now is because…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I think back. I think manufacturing strategy has changed so much in my career where there was a point where all we did is try to move work to the lowest cost countries. I mean, it was pretty simple…

David Gitlin ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CARR ·Jun 2026

We want to be the global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions. So, when you parse through that, all right, global leader, we want to win in everything we do. Intelligent, everything…

David Gitlin ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CARR ·Jun 2026

The amount of infrastructure spend around data centers globally is unlike anything that we've ever seen. And if you think about the cooling requirements... the amount of cooling required especially…

David Gitlin ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CARR ·Jun 2026

We spun, we had $11 billion of debt, we had a billion dollars of cash, and our first quarter as a public company, our sales were down 25%. And what happened was frankly quite quite magical because…

David Gitlin ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer CARR ·Jun 2026

It is cyber and I think it'd be the same. You ask any of the CEOs, we would have the same answer. So, we all invest a lot in that. We help secure for our clients, make sure their assets and and data…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

I don't worry about our revenues because when when when there are more challenges, clients also need us to be providing the support in terms of volatility, hedging, credit facilities, other elements.…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

We will improve our returns and continue steadily improving our performance, but we're also not going to sacrifice the long term for the short term. Citi's done that once before, it's not happening…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

So, um we we closed that transactions in India in the summer of '23. By March '24 '25, which is when we last reported our results, we have seen a 35% growth in net income versus where we were where…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

I think they're a tad optimistic if I could use a British understatement there for the moment. I think this is the there's a lot of money in the world. That money wants to go to work because it knows…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

I think if you think it's more than five years out, you're making a mistake. I think that you should you should then say and if it is only five years out are we encrypting data today that if it gets…

Arvind Krishna ·CEO, President & Chairman IBM ·Jun 2026

It is a top down industrial policy. So in some sense if you look at that um government has always put his finger on what can succeed and not. So if you go back to the beginnings of the defense…

Arvind Krishna ·CEO, President & Chairman IBM ·Jun 2026

Quite. First of all, it's not a brand new trend. Um, if you go back to what happened to Fanny May and Freddy Mack, I would say that was 20 years ago. uh if you look at different equity stakes that…

Arvind Krishna ·CEO, President & Chairman IBM ·Jun 2026

I believe that right now the approach being taken is the right one. First of all, yes, it's called voluntary, but it's really hard to say no to the guy who sits behind the Oval Office desk. Um, so…

Arvind Krishna ·CEO, President & Chairman IBM ·Jun 2026

Well, first um I think this kind of hits the Goldilock spot right now where you want to have light regulation, not overweight and not creating a big bureaucracy that can slow things down. I do…

Arvind Krishna ·CEO, President & Chairman IBM ·Jun 2026

Look, I don't know that we can square for you the headline surveys on consumer confidence or small business confidence which are all you know not great how we square that with what we actually see.…

William Demchak ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PNC ·Jun 2026

I don't you know think about the average balance somebody holds as a function of how high rates are and how competitive outside alternatives are. Think about total shots on goal is the number of…

William Demchak ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PNC ·Jun 2026

I can't speak to what other banks have in this category as the definition seems to capture random things. But we are very outsized in our corporate receivables financing relative to others. Which is…

William Demchak ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PNC ·Jun 2026

specifically in regard to the increased attention on banks exposure to non-depository financial institutions. You know, Rob's going to walk through some of the details as it relates to our exposure,…

William Demchak ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PNC ·Jun 2026

While we recognize that there are many market concerns out there from energy prices to AI to private credit, we are not seeing anything that suggests these issues are broadly impacting our customers…

William Demchak ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer PNC ·Jun 2026

I think the second half could see a little bit more muted but there's a lot of dry powder there with the sponsors that you know there's a lot of wealth to be created over the longer run in some of…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

So to me it feels like there are two races going on in AI. One is the race to apply this new transformative technology to our businesses. We saw it first in the coding space. We've been seeing it in…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

I think when I think of investor day, the team of us wanted to really make sure that our investors left with three messages about the firm. The first one is we do what we say we're going to do,…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

I think rightly he will focus the G7 on global imbalances. There are a lot around the world at the moment. And talking about what are we going to do to do about it and the Middle East will come up…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

There are countries and there are companies that protect what they have and in the process they somewhat diminish what they have. Sadly, my original country, the UK is one of those. Many countries in…

Jane Fraser ·Chief Executive Officer & Chair of the Board C ·Jun 2026

We anticipate consolidated revenue of approximately $24 billion and consolidated operating margin of approximately 11 to 11.5%.

Carol Tome ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UPS ·May 2026

Amid a rapidly evolving global landscape, UPS is executing the most significant strategic shift in our company's history. We're focused on winning where it matters most, capturing high-value parts of…

Carol Tome ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UPS ·May 2026

We recently reached a preliminary understanding on revenue and rates with the United States Postal Service to support last mile delivery for our ground saver product. There's still more work to do,…

Carol Tome ·Chief Executive Officer & Director UPS ·May 2026