Monday, November 24, 2008

The USA is Now Long CitiGroup?

I guess it is one bad stock after another that the US government keeps buying in order to keep these sad companies afloat. They better break up Citi and unlock some of the value in that company.

ClusterStock's John Carney lays out terms of the $306 billion in loans:

  • The first $29 billion of losses from the portfolio will be absorbed by Citi entirely.
  • The Treasury Department will take 90% of the next $5 billion of losses, with Citi taking the rest.
  • The FDIC will step in and take 90% of the next $10 billion of losses while Citi absorbs the balance.
  • Losses beyond that will be taken by the Federal Reserve in the 90% government role. "Note that Citi is still supposed to take the remaining 10% at this stage but it's hard to believe that anyone really thinks Citi would be able to take any more losses once it had written down $40 billion more in this portfolio," Carney writes.

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