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If the bank meets expectations, it will be its lowest revenue since Q2 2012 ($6.6 billion). If you remember what was happened in Q2 2012, you'll remember that the Euro crisis had everyone thinking the world was falling apart.
That $7.2 billion expected is also $1.2 billion lower than Q3 2012 - so what gives?
So far, with the exception of Bank of America, all the Wall Street banks that have reported earnings so far this season have gotten spanked - JP Morgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, everyone.
The two businesses that have shown the most weakness for all of them have been mortgage origination and fixed-income trading (if they have both, if not either/or).
For Goldman analysts won't be worried about mortgage origination - they'll be looking to see how the bank's trading desks hold up in the midst of this routing.
Stay tuned.