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The stock market may be down 40% this year, but your portfolio has other assets too - or at least it should. Balanced funds that hold bonds and cash along with stocks are down just 29%, according to mutual-fund tracker Morningstar. And many retirees looking to minimize risk wisely hold...
In the end it was too much bad news. Citi stock plummeted, dropping 60% over the course of the week, to $3.77 a share. Meanwhile, other parts of the market confirmed Citi's stressed state. The cost of credit-default swaps that protect investors from losing money on Citi's...
The Lowdown: When confronted with massive challenges - and forming a "hemispheric partnership" certainly qualifies - it helps to frame prescribed policy changes in terms of sheer self-interest. This report does so deftly, mostly eschewing wonkiness in favor of stressing common bonds. Its series of "modest, pragmatic recommendations" are couched to...
In addition, Citigroup holds $172 billion in loans to corporations. In general, corporate bonds have not fallen a lot because there have not been many defaults. The aggregate Barclays corporate bond index is down 3%. Still, because of the size of Citigroup's loan book, wave goodbye to another $5...
Here's the math: Citigroup has, as Mayo said, about a $100 billion equity cushion, which could be wiped out if loans go bad. At the end of the third quarter, Citigroup had $17 billion in commercial mortgage bonds. According to Barclays Capital, the average CMB price has fallen 34...