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...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 billion...
...Geithner is working with a fairly well thought-out historical perspective on the crisis. He believes the U.S. government allowed the creation of a massive shadow banking system run by investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage firms over the last 30 years that rivaled the traditional system in size but lacked every one of the stabilizing pillars that had been erected beneath it after the Great Depression: deposit insurance, access to a lender of last resort, a system for orderly failure, and reasonable constraints on risk and leverage. With near bottomless funds from money-market investments and sky-high leveraging...
...Another possible suitor could be US Bancorp. The Minneapolis bank is one of the nation's largest, but it has little presence on the East Coast, where Citi is big player. U.S. Bancorp has a market cap of $40 billion, about double the size of Citigroup. What's more, U.S. Bancorp chief financial officer Andrew Cecere recently told the Wall Street Journal said that the firm was interested in making a large acquisition...
...Kwaku Nyamekye said. “Anything can happen.”Massachusetts’ run in the tournament last year serves as proof of that. But while their 2007 performance may have come as a surprise, the Minutemen returned the bulk of the squad, and their combination of size and experience means that nobody will take them for granted in 2008.“It was no fluke since they backed up their run last year with winning the Atlantic-10 in the regular season,” Clark said.Massachusetts head coach Sam Koch earned Atlantic-10 Coach...
...process may sound as worthy and bureaucratic as a conclave of some obscure United Nations agency. But as with any gathering of this size, the real action is happening informally, in the courtyards and coffee houses around Dharamsala. Old friends and classmates are seeing each other after many years, comparing notes on their children and counting gray hairs. The radicals of the movement, who advocate a free Tibet, are buttonholing the centrists to shore up support in the mainstream. And everyone in Dharamsala is getting a chance to catch a glimpse of Tibet's aristocracy. (Was that the Dalai Lama...