Goldman Shareholders' Hope for Bigger Payout Dashed by Fed

``Goldman Sachs's narrow buffer in the Fed's eyes would leave the New York-based firm with less than $1 billion in excess capital to pay out to shareholders beyond the dividends the firm has been disbursing. That's dwarfed by the $5.47 billion it returned through buybacks in 2014, and the $6.5 billion that Katzke estimated the bank would return over the next five quarters.''