Citigroup Posts $2.5 Billion Loss, Cuts 6,000 Jobs
NEW YORK — Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion se...
NEW YORK — Citigroup has become the latest big bank to quell Wall Street's worries about a financial sector implosion, posting a $2.5 billion se...
James Berman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
It makes more sense to invest for the probability that the world will outlive this collapse -- as surely as it did all others in history -- instead of for the remote possibility that the apocalypse is finally upon us.
Bloomberg.com | Sharon L. Lynch | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
Former Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Charles O. "Chuck'' Prince III lost his job because of the housing slump. Now he's having a hard time se...
Max Keiser | Posted 06.14.2008 | Business
Workers and savers end up footing the bill for Wall Street's bonuses and Fed-crimes against the dollar.
The New York Times | Eric Dash | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
What do you call a hedge fund that has no outside investors? Closed. Vikram S. Pandit, Citigroup's chief executive, knows that answer all too well. O...
Financial Times | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business
Sandy Weill, Citigroup's former chairman and chief executive, has acknowledged that the planning that led to the choice of Chuck Prince as his success...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 05.09.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc.'s new chief executive, Vikram Pandit, plans to stick with a global banking model after months of intense review _ but ...
New York Times | Eric Dash | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business
Citigroup announced late Wednesday that it was moving one of its most senior investment bankers to the Middle East, hoping to establish a stronger foo...
AP | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Citigroup's directors have been re-elected, but they were shelled with criticism at Tuesday's annual meeting of shareholders, whose stock in the bank ...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Citigroup's 9,000 job cuts and $14 billion in write-downs suggest that even if the worst of the credit market volatility is over, the...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
Even in these post-Blodget times, the media can't stop itself from annointing the next stock picker or market caller extraordinaire.
Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business
The landmark merger that created Citigroup was a "mistake" that failed to benefit the financial services conglomerate's investors, customers and emplo...
James Berman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
There are only a few moments in an investment lifetime where there is fear so thick and the pricing so low that great riches await those willing to bear the risk of buying. This is one of those times.
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Citigroup Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $1.66 billion to creditors of Enron Corp. who lost money when the energy trader collapsed in 2...
New York TImes | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business
Citigroup plans to lay off another 2,000 investment bankers and traders before the end of the month, people close to the situation said on Wednesday. ...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
I've been in business for about 5,427 dog years and at no time during my career has there ever been a day when somebody wasn't worried about what some security analyst was writing about us.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Three corporate executives called in for a shaming by Democratic lawmakers Friday defended raking in hundreds of millions of dollar...
New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 03.06.2008 | Business
Vikram Pandit's winding up his 100-day, globetrotting honeymoon as Citigroup's would-be savior by yesterday writing a love note to all employees to as...
CNBC | Charles Gasparino | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business
A consortium of banks is planning to underwrite a private sale of as much as $2.5 billion of Ambac stock to shore up the bond insurer's capital, which...
CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
Citigroup's job cuts could reach 30,000 or more over the next year and a half because of increasing writedowns from subprime-related debt, CNBC has le...
Wall Street Journal | LINGLING WEI, RANDALL SMITH | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
After suffering a beating from their exposure to home loans, banks and securities firms are about to take their lumps from office towers, hotels and o...
New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
Even after its outside investments and its controversial dividend cut, Citigroup may still be looking for additional capital. PE Hub's Dan Primack rep...
Wall Street Journal | David Gaffen | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business
The admissions of greater-than-expected writedowns from Swiss bank UBS, along with reports out of major Japanese institutions, means the total amount ...
Reuters Via USA Today | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
Citigroup (C) awarded Chief Executive Vikram Pandit $26.7 million worth of shares and 3 million stock options six weeks after he took over the largest...
Bloomberg | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business
The Capital One Financial Corporation, the credit card issuer, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 42 percent as more borrowers failed to r...
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AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business