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Well, I guess it had to happen eventually. After Citigroup finally posted its first profit in a very long time, the Treasury Department finally feels it’s time to shed itself of all that stock that they bought when Citigroup was in trouble. How much are we talking about? The government, which by extension means we [...]
I guess it had to happen eventually. Citigroup finally announced a quarterly profit after many quarters of massive losses. They reported a profit of $4.4 billion in the first quarter of this year, compared to a $670 million loss at the same time last year. Supposedly they’ve turned the corner because of trading of bonds [...]
For now, it seems that the freefall that was known as Citigroup has slowed down and actually stabilized for awhile. The company whose stock price used to be around $55 a share back in 2006 is now hovering around $3.50 a share, but it’s been hovering around there for a few weeks now, even slightly [...]
Last August I wrote a post talking about this study that said 416 banks were in trouble. It seems that the news is much worse about six months later, as the prediction now is that 702 banks, which is one out of every 11 banks in the country, are in trouble. That also includes a [...]
Once again, no one can be surprised by this move, after so much bad financial news and negative press. Citigroup and Bank of America got more bad news last week when their bond rating was downgraded from “stable” to “negative” by Standard & Poor. The initial outlook on both banks is that they’re still shaky, [...]
This was expected. Citigroup announced that they had lost around $1.6 billion in the 4th quarter of 2009, mainly from trying to pay off the federal government, and that ends up giving them a loss of $7.6 billion for the year. That’s certainly not the best news for a banking system that’s trying to convince [...]
I know that some people believed I was sounding a very negative death knell against the credit card industry last year. I went fairly easy on American Express because, after all, it’s not associated with any banks and their practices, for the most part, have been pretty fair. But for everyone else who has a [...]
