Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the Wall Street bank most reliant on trading, posted a 74 percent increase in second-quarter profit as litigation and compensation costs fell and fixed-income revenue surpassed analysts’ estimates. Net income rose to $1.82 billion, or $3.72 a share, from $1.05 billion, or $1.98, a year earlier, when the company had a $1.45 billion provision for legal and other regulatory matters, New York-based Goldman Sachs said Tuesday in a statement. Eighteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg estimated per-share earnings of $3.05.

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