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...last week, events took a turn for the worse. Negative reports on consumer default rates and troubling statistics on commercial loans unnerved investors. Two moves by Citi - taking $80 billion in risky assets off the auction block and transferring some mortgage-related securities held in an off-balance-sheet vehicle back onto its books - spooked shareholders already wary of what unknowns might be lurking. On Nov. 18, the company announced that it would be laying off about 50,000 of its employees, or 20% of its global workforce...
Citi is not the first bank to hit the wall. When Washington Mutual, which had a balance sheet less than a third the size of Citi's, went down, the FDIC immediately flipped the company to JPMorgan Chase. But marrying off Citi was not a viable option. "There isn't anyone to hand Citi to," says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School. "This is the King Kong of banks." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...have read about Citigroup's Special Investment Vehicles. Through SIVs and other structures Citigroup has kept some of its loan liabilities off its balance sheet. On Wednesday, Citigroup said it would repurchase the last of those SIV assets for $17 billion. But Citigroup still has a remarkable $130 billion in unfunded off-balance-sheet liabilities. Not all of that will go bad. But conditions don't look good for the $2.5 billion in obligations to off-balance-sheet collateralized debt obligations, or to a lesser extent the $63 billion it has in asset-backed debt...
...Citi has not been marking its loans down to market value aggressively enough, the losses on its balance sheet could be even greater, which could be the case. "Though difficult to draw hard conclusions from comparisons between banks, Citi's marks appear less aggressive than J.P. Morgan's," wrote analyst John McDonald of Sanford C. Bernstein in a research report last week...
...silly string through a contraption in his hand. The Velociraptors were eerie, with long tails and elongated masks that opened and closed with the jaws of the wearer. The Tyrannosaurus was by far the most intricate—and most impressive—costume; two people stood under a sheet, with one manipulating the two-fingered arms and another holding the top half of the T-Rex’s massive jaw. The scene when this beast attacked the visitors’ cars was a marvel of homemade choreography and powerful sound effects. And even amid the violence...