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...capital position. All told, the government has injected $45 billion into Citi by buying preferred shares; it has also insured the bank against losses on as much as $300 billion in loans and bonds. It is assistance the bank has needed. Citi lost $19 billion in 2008, and analysts expect the red ink to continue for some time. (Read "Citigroup Plans Big Bonuses Despite Rules Against Them...
...news processor as a leading economic indicator, and today's loss notwithstanding, big investors may be betting on better news around the corner. "If you believe as I do that we'll be coming out of recession by year end, then this is about the time you would expect to see the start of a cyclical bull market," says Stephen Leuthold, president of Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, a firm with $5 billion in assets. Leuthold has studied stock markets and recessions going back to 1860. "We found that in all but two instances, the stock market began to recover about...
...takes dramatic action in case of major banking crises. Though industry officials may gripe, Geithner's fixes are little different from the rules that traditional banks already abide by (and make plenty of profits under). And even the GOP might not have as many philosphical objections as one would expect. On the same day that Geithner rolled out his proposals, House Republicans expressed support for a step the Obama Administration has so far resisted: turning to the FDIC, or an entity like the Resolution Trust Corporation used during the savings-and-loan crisis, to temporarily take over today's failing...
...questions. While residents of Pyongyang are less afraid to interact with foreigners than, say, a decade ago, they "won't speak to journalists without permission," says Lankov. Even at the joint South and North Korean industrial complex at Kaesong, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, journalists don't really expect to land interviews with regular North Koreans, says Voice of America's Kurt Achin, who was part of a press tour there about two years ago. (See pictures of the reportedly ailing Kim Jong Il, doctored by his government...
Observers expect the two American reporters now being detained for "illegally intruding" into the North will become a pawn to be used by Pyongyang at an opportune political moment. And with Pyongyang's internationally unpopular missile-satellite launch in the pipeline, analysts would be surprised to see the duo return home in the coming days. Pyongyang might also want to send a clear signal to other journalists that it won't tolerate any lurking around its border...