Friday, May 9, 2008

Citigroup for sale?

The Financial Times has a story about Citigroup being on the auction block, and it actually sounds like a pretty good deal. Here is an excerpt:

Citigroup will on Friday identify as much as $400bn in non-core assets that could be sold as part of plans to reduce costs and restore profit growth to double-digit rates, according to people close to the situation.

At a long-awaited meeting with Wall Street analysts, Vikram Pandit, Citi’s chief executive, also plans to confirm his pledge, first disclosed in the Financial Times, to cut Citi’s cost base of over $60bn by about 20 per cent.

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