Friday, July 17, 2009

Citi made money

Citi reported a 4.3 billion dollar profit for the second quarter, temporarily relieving some of the non-stop stress Uncle Vik has been facing. This is great news, although much of the result was due to the sale of the Smith Barney wealth management division to Morgan Stanley. Nevertheless, it is a good sign for the embattled financial services supermarket which is trying to slim down and fine tune its business model.

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