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...move will reduce Citi's capital ratios and hurt earnings; it may also accelerate a retreat of foreign investors from the company's shares. Worse, the government is demanding stricter terms from Citi than it did from Bank of America on the repayment deal it struck just a week ago. The different treatment shows that the government remains more concerned about Citi's finances than those of its rivals...
...Citi's deal to pay back the government was reportedly hashed out over a week's worth of marathon negotiations following Bank of America's repayment last week of $45 billion in government assistance. Citi did not want to be one of the few remaining big banks still using the government's crutch.(See the worst business deals...
...Group, a market-research firm, says the average price for LCD TVs was down 22%, to $535, during the week of Black Friday. Notebook-computer prices dropped 26%, to $500, and unit sales of computers increased a whopping 63%. Prices for netbooks, the lighter, more portable cousin to traditional laptop computers, also dropped. Camcorder prices fell 33%. And these days, the deals extend beyond Black Friday. "One of the phenomena we are seeing is that retailers are really stretching the promotional period," says Ross Rubin, consumer-electronics analyst at NPD. "Retailers are looking to prime the pump...
...breath.) Its success spawned imitators like the popular South Beach diet, a more lenient version that invokes the same low-sugar principle. But other modern diets remain pretty far-fetched. One example is the cabbage-soup diet, which promises that adherents will lose 10 lb. in a week by eating only cabbage soup. A more challenging competitor might be the lemonade diet, which requires dieters to subsist on a concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, red pepper and hot water for as long as 10 days. While it may not rely on sound science, Siegal's cookie diet looks that...
Roberts was finally called to meet his alleged maker this week, more than two decades after that melodramatic appeal. He was 91 and died after complications from a fall in his home in California, where he lived in retirement. In the interim, the faith-healing evangelist saw his once enormous religious empire crumble and his son Richard resign as head of ORU in 2007 after allegations of financial malfeasance - a scandal that reportedly left the school with more than $50 million in debt. (Another son, Ronald, committed suicide amid drug rehabilitation in 1982.) (Read "Oral Roberts to the Rescue...