{"id":193713,"date":"2008-11-21T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/21\/citi-dead-pool\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T00:37:00","slug":"citi-dead-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/21\/citi-dead-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi Dead Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have the stock tanking by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">25%<\/span> yesterday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aEzRwKlMg4xY&amp;refer=home\">Its CEO Vikram Pandit denying reports that it is looking for a buyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, its market cap has dropped from $274 billion to $21 billion in a couple of years, and $21 billion sounds a lot like a handful of beans.<\/p>\n<p>We have reports that &#8220;non core&#8221; assets might be sold off, and there are leaks that notwithstanding Mr. Pandit protestations, that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/27829103\">looking to merge with someone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we have the stock tanking by 25% yesterday, and Its CEO Vikram Pandit denying reports that it is looking for a buyer. I dunno, its market cap has dropped from $274 billion to $21 billion in a couple of years, and $21 billion sounds a lot like a handful of beans. We have reports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1261,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}