As Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boss David Solomon chatted at a November dinner for retired partners, he mentioned that the firm will be among the country’s most profitable big public companies this year. But the veteran mergers banker Geoff Boisi was struck by how muted the excitement has been.

Companies that have gone public in the last two decades have had few minorities on their boards, a new report finds.

Wall Street’s vow last year to fight racism kicked off a parade of pledges, few more specific than plans to support historically Black colleges and universities.

It’s right there in the first few pages of “Trump University Branding 101”: “The truth is, everything you say and do is important,” he wrote in the 2008 book’s foreword. “Actions matter.”

Wall Street deals are on hold. Its skyscrapers are mostly hushed. But, in a subtle sign of New York City’s reopening, Franco Anzalone is finally cutting hair again.