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Citibank: Too Big to Fail?
Tom Evslin submits: It's easy to believe that Citibank is a tottering tower whose collapse would endanger us all in the canyons below. However, keeping a financial corpse walking further endangers every other financial institution. When Citi is declared too big to fail, it becomes a more...
Realty Income: 'The Monthly Dividend Company'
Dividends4Life submits: (This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net, November 24, 2008.) Linked here is a PDF copy of my detailed analysis of Realty Income Corp O (alt.1, alt.2). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis: by Dividends4Life
Robert Rubin: Continuing to Dodge Responsibility
Joel West submits: From Saturday’s WSJ: Under fire for his role in the near-collapse of Citigroup Inc. C, Robert Rubin said its problems were due to the buckling financial system, not its own mistakes, and that his role was peripheral to the bank's main operations even though he was...
Citi's Destructive Potential Still Poses Systemic Threat
Andrew Hughes submits: Monday's handing over of yet more taxpayer money to Citigroup C has temporarily avoided a truly systemic breakdown of the world banking system but, as always, the real problems have not been addressed and the inevitable collapse has just been delayed. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that: by...
Citigroup: Another Bad Deal
Zacks.com submits: Over the weekend, the government decided to guarantee over $300 billion in Citigroup, Inc. C assets -- and let me assure you that those are the most worthless assets on C’s books -- for up to 10 years in the case of residential backed assets and...
FDIC Graphs Show the Extent of the Financial Crisis
Anthony M. Freed submits: More Institutions Report Declining Earnings, Quarterly Losses: Troubled assets continued to mount at insured commercial banks and savings institutions in the third quarter of 2008, placing a growing burden on industry earnings. Expenses for credit losses topped $50 billion for a second consecutive...
Citigroup: Not the Reaction a Bailout Should Get
James Cullen submits: Going back to Walter Bagehot, Central Banks should lend without limit at a penalty rate during a crisis. That rate should hurt, but it is better than no access to credit. To do otherwise is to shortchange taxpayers, and place the value of the Dollar at...
The CDS Anti-Matter Bubble
Alex Trias submits: In a recent article, I described the contours of a dangerous bubble in the credit default swap (or “CDS”) market. A bubble in the price of CDS is unlike any other type of asset bubble insofar as it leads to dramatic consequences on the macro economy –...
The Government's Pouring Money Into a Bottomless Citi Pit
There is nothing more difficult, more frustrating and more expensive than to keep a corpse from sinking" Peter Drucker In bailing out Citigroup C a second time (as you recall, Citigroup just received $25 billion from the TARP in October), the government has started the process of creating...
How Do You Value Trust?
Stephen Hsu submits: In no-arb, efficient market fairy tale land, investors are assumed to be able to value a company by simply looking at its balance sheet, researching its market and business model and projecting into the future. Sound difficult? Why, yes, it's almost impossible to do,...
Citi: At the Very Least a Three Time Loser
Joel West submits: The Wall Street Journal — the BFF of American big business — is calling for the breakup of Citibank C and the firing of its board of directors. Here are the concluding paragraphs of its editorial yesterday morning: While other banks can claim to be victims...
UBS Analyst: Citigroup Likely to Issue Common Equity By 2010
FP Trading Desk submits: The government-backed rescue of Citigroup Inc. C won the praise of analysts and investors on Monday, sending its shares up more than 55%, but it also brought into focus the likelihood of the bank potentially issuing more common equity. There is little doubt that Citigroup...
Citigroup on the Brink, Despite Government Rescue
Dividend Inc. submits: The term that is the basis of all discussions in elementary economic modeling, especially when comparing two factors, is ceteris paribus. Ceteris paribus means "with other things the same" and represents the best guess as to what is likely to occur provided all thing remain...
Citigroup: 4 Bailout Questions
Kirk Shinkle submits: The government's decision to prop up Citigroup C opens a new chapter in the ongoing financial crisis. This latest rescue, larger by far than the bailouts of Bear Stearns BSC or American International Group AIG, sets the newest precedent for how far the government will go in...
World Markets Skyrocket on Citigroup Bailout
Jonathan O'Shaughnessy submits: The bailout plan for the banking giant Citigroup C was announced early Monday morning which induced one of the largest surges in global markets since the crisis began. Following several extremely harsh days of declines, executives and government officials talked until the late hours of the night...
Fed and Citi Reach Deal, Bar Set for Troubled Banks
Eddy Elfenbein submits: Well, the deal is done. Citigroup C reached a deal with the Feds whereby the government will backstop $306 billion of its crappy assets. Note that the assets are not being taken off the balance sheet TARP is dead. In exchange, the government will get 8%...
The Citi Rescue: On Our Way to Nationalized Banking?
Markham Lee submits: So this morning's big story is the Government's rescue of Citibank C, let's take a look at various stories on the situation, starting with coverage from the WSJ: From the WSJ: "The federal government agreed Sunday night to rescue Citigroup Inc. by...
Monday Market Roundup: Citigroup Gets More Treasury Money, Surges
Jordan Kahn submits: The markets picked up where they ended on Friday - with a rally. The market bounced from its Friday lows after Obama announced that Timothy Geitner would be named as Treasury Secretary. Asian markets were lower overnight, but our markets shrugged off their weakness from the...
Chart of the Week: Ratio of VIX to Three Month T-Bill Yield
Bill Luby submits: I have been mulling over some ideas for new features on the blog feel free to suggest some possibilities in the comments below and one of these is a chart of the week that highlights what I think is a particularly salient development from the past...
How Did Citigroup End Up in Crisis?
Brad DeLong submits: Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? Eric Dash and Julie Creswell write that: Citigroup C had poor risk controls. As a result, the bank owned $43 billion of mortgage-related assets that it...
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