Goldman Sachs Group Inc Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates

Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) released its earnings numbers for the three months through June 30 this morning before the market opened on Wall Street. The company showed earnings per share of $4.10 for the quarter, which the investment bank records as its second of 2014. Revenue for the period came in at $9.3 billion. In pre-market trading, investors greeted the news and drove the company's stock up by more than 2%.

Analysts were expecting a decent return from Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), but today's results defied their models. Consensus estimates showed that analysts were looking for earnings...