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Citigroup posts $2.5b loss, but beats expectations
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-18 23:43 And during the second quarter, Citi lopped off $99 billion from its total assets, which now stand at $2.02 trillion. Back in May, Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the bank would shrink its then-$2.2 trillion in balance sheet assets by about $400 billion to $500 billion over the next few years. "While there is still much to do, we are encouraged by our progress in delivering on our commitment to the re-engineering efforts," Pandit said in a statement. Not all financial services companies have been clearing the low bar that Wall Street set for them this quarter. The brokerage Merrill Lynch & Co. late Thursday reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and write-downs from losing investments in the debt markets approaching $40 billion. The credit lender Capital One Financial Corp., meanwhile, posted a larger-than-expected profit decline. |
