Some 6,500 investment banking jobs are set to go at Citigroup, if a Wall Street Journal report is to be believed.
Investment Opportunity In an article published on its website this weekend, the newspaper claimed that the firm will begin making staff redundant from today, with a view to cutting ten per cent [...]
New England Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light and about 20 other star athletes loaned more than $8 million to a California real estate company that teamed up with Fidelity Investments and Citigroup Inc. to invest in apartment complexes before collapsing and filing for bankruptcy protection.
Light, Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay and Los Angeles Angels [...]
Chennai, June 3 International rating agency, Standard & Poor’s (S & P) has lowered its ratings on a number of top investment banking companies in the United States. S & P has downgraded Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and Morgan Stanley.
According to a press release issued by S & P, it has [...]
Citigroup swung to a huge loss in the first quarter, hurt in part by poor performance and write-downs at its alternative investments business.
The losses at Citi Alternative Investments were a relative drop in the $5.1 billion bucket of red ink: the group recorded “negative revenue†of $358 million “on sharply lower proprietary revenues†and $212 [...]
RREEF Alternative Investments, the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division, announced it has launched a new venture that will invest over $1 billion over the next three years in India’s growing real estate market.
The new venture, RREEF India Advisors, which will be run by country head Kishore Gotety, will be [...]
The Bush administration, pledging a “strong and continued commitment” to safeguarding national security, issued 90 pages of regulations Monday to implement a new law tightening security reviews of foreign investments.
Congress passed the law last year after an uproar in 2006 over a plan by Dubai-owned DP World to manage six of the largest ports in [...]
Wall Street appeared unmoved by a speech from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on the plan to reorganize oversight of Wall Street; details of the 218-page plan have been widely reported in recent days. It would give the Federal Reserve increased power to protect the stability of the entire financial system while merging day-to-day supervision [...]
Wall Street appeared unmoved by a speech from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on the plan to reorganize oversight of Wall Street; details of the 218-page plan have been widely reported in recent days. It would give the Federal Reserve increased power to protect the stability of the entire financial system while merging day-to-day supervision [...]
Stocks had wobbled in the early going Thursday after the Labor Department said the number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week by a more-than-anticipated 22,000 to 378,000. That level is the highest in nearly two months.
But Wall Street found reason to buy back into stocks when the [...]
NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi has pledged it
will not use its money to further its political aims, according
to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, citing a letter it said
was sent to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other
Western finance officials.
The Journal said the letter spells out [...]
