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Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Questionable Risk Policies At Citigroup

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:51 +0000

" Citigroup is whining that new regulations eliminate pricing for risk. So what does it do? Jack up rates is the answer."

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Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Risk Policis At Citigrifroup

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:51 +0000

Citigroup is whining that new regulations eliminate pricing for risk. So what does it do? Jack up rates is the answer. To lower interest rates, Citi customers must spend more . Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka ...

IEHI Feed: The Hedge Fund Implode-o-Meter found this 35 hours ago on globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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Moody’s May Cut Goldman Debt in $450 Billion Review

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:37 +0000

"Debt sold by Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. is among the $450 billion of securities that Moody’s Investors Service said it may downgrade."

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Paulson Gives 3rd-Quarter Investor Update

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:46 +0000

John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who gained fame betting on the mortgage crisis, sees big opportunities to wager on price discrepancies in banking stocks, according to his most recent letter to investors.

Abnormal Returns found this 2 days ago on dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

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Citi's clunker deal

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:25 +0000

Several big-name buyout shops have held informal talks with Citigroup about buying the struggling bank's auto-loan business, whose outlook is improving as the car business recovers, The Post has learned. Sources tell The Post that Blackstone and other private-equity leaders have kicked the ...

DealBook found this 2 days ago on nypost.com

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Citi raises salaries for CFO, global markets head

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:49:40 +0000

Citigroup Inc. said its chief financial officer and co-head of global markets are getting raises, while CEO Vikram Pandit will continue to collect a salary of $1 per year. Citigroup, based in New York, faces restrictions on executive compensation because it received $45 billion in government ...

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Kass: The Quant Bubble

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Quant funds' outsized influence in buying stocks, bonds and commodities is approaching the height of its popularity.

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Citi Says Buy Pulte (PHM)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:03 +0000

Pulte Homes Inc. (NYSE: PHM) could be subject to the housing starts figure later this morning, but so far shares are trading higher. Citigroup raised its rating to BUY in a research call this morning. Shares are trading up 4.7% at $10.05 on almost 40,000 shares as of 8:12 AM EST. Average ...

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Paulson Takes Citigroup Stake, Sells Goldman Sachs Shares

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:17:05 +0000

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- John Paulson disclosed that his hedge-fund group acquired 300 million shares of Citigroup Inc. during the third quarter, while selling its entire stake of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The Citigroup holding, listed by New York-based Paulson & Co. yesterday in a regulatory ...

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When banks use capital made of sand

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:58:00 +0000

Citigroup’s capital position appeared much improved when the bank reported third-quarter earnings, but a look beneath the surface shows that much of its capital is of questionable value. According to its recent 10-Q, Citi had $38 billion of deferred tax assets as of Sept. 30, more than ...

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Paulson Puts Money on Citi, Ditching Goldman

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:57:29 +0000

John Paulson, the hedge fund manager, has continued to build his stake in Citigroup, while jettisoning his investment in Goldman Sachs.

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Citi Said to Eye Relaunch of Hedge Fund Unit

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 05:34:30 +0000

``The move comes after two years of performance problems and investor unrest at the unit, Citi Alternative Investments. Now, it seems, the only problem facing Citigroup executives is what to name the unit, which has $14 billion of assets under management.''

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Citi Surging on Paulson Stake (C)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:59:31 +0000

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is trading up on the filing showing that John Paulson, the notorious short seller, now holds a stake of 300 million shares of Citi. At 8:28 AM EST we have seen almost 15 million shares trade hands and the gain is 4.4% to $4.23 in pre-market trading. This is double ...

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Citigroup is ALREADY Being Broken Up ... But Not Enough

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:02:26 +0000

"Citigroup Inc.... is already being broken up under part-ownership by the government, [Richard] Bove and other analysts say..."

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Entertainment Properties Slammed on Secondary (EPR)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:54 +0000

Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR) is getting hit after the company announced last night that plans to file a supplement to its shelf registration statement with the SEC for a public offering of 4,500,000 of common stock. J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets Corporation are the joint ...

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/16/2009) (NVDA)(C)(AAPL)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Updated throughout the day. Central banks will be net purchasers of gold for the first time in decades (CNBC) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) wants to expand it wealth management operation (Investment News and Business Insider) Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has started to complain about Intel’s ...

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Top Day Trader Alerts (C, DELL, NLST, NABI, PARD, RVSN, CSCO)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

These are this Monday morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have a link through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more detailed analysis and data. Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is up 4% on the Paulson stake being so large. Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is up over 1% after ...

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Citigroup Eyes Relaunch of Hedge Fund Unit, Report Says

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:24:49 +0000

Citigroup is preparing to relaunch its hedge fund business operations, after months of debate on the unit's future, The Financial Times reported.

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Terra Firma's Bid to Save EMI Rejected

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:19 +0000

Citigroup Inc. has rejected Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd.'s latest bid to restructure EMI GroupLtd., as the music company's lender and its owner haggle over how to address its debt burden. Citigroup in the past few weeks rebuffed a proposal from the buyout firm in which Terra Firma would ...

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Driving Youthful Investors Towards Citigroup

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:00:01 +0000

Caller : Hey, I’m interested in buying a stock, Citigroup, and I would like to know would it be a good stock? I’m 28 years old, and I want to know it Citi a good long-term and short-term investment? Cramer : And what was the stock? Did we get the stock’s name? Citigroup. ...

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