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The heavily indebted Spanish construction group Sacyr Vallehermoso announced the sale of the highway operator Itinere Infraestructuras to Citigroup for $10 Billion (7.88 Billion Euro’s).

Citigroup is buying a toll road (Highway) in Spain.
You can’t make this stuff up!
Citigroup? The bank that was on the verge of failing last week. The bank that was on [...]

As of 01/02/2008 the the year price target on the S&P 500 set by the Chief Investment Strategists at the major investment banks are as follows:
Strategist Year End Price Target
Citigroup                                   1675
HSBC                                          1700
Credit Suisse                              1650
Bank of America                         1625
UBS                                             1700
Morgan Stanley                           1525
Bear Stearns                                1700
Goldman Sachs                           1675
JP Morgan                                    1590
Lehman Brothers                         1630
Wachovia                                     1590
Merrill Lynch                                1525
Average 1632
Average [...]

The U.S. government is ready to provide $7.7 trillion of American taxpayer money after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. These pledges amount to HALF OF US GDP and almost four times the amount the Government receives in tax revenue per year.
The US dollar sold off on the news as gold spiked [...]

On November 20th, 2008 it was announced that Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bought up shares of Citigroup (NYSE: C) increasing his holdings to 5% of the total outstanding shares. The move seemed quite daring at the time as Citigroup’s shares were in freefall dropping 25% in the previous trading day alone (down over 90% [...]