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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 [...]

The yield on the 10 year treasury sunk to a 50 year low this week. It’s important to pay attention to moves in the treasury yield. If investors are panicked, they are more concerned with safety and less concerned with returns. Because price and yield are inversely related, when demand increases and the price for [...]

The annuity shoe is about to drop!
(MarketWatch.com) Shares of AXA dropped as much as 17% in Paris as the French insurance giant shaved about a quarter of this year’s underlying earnings assumptions as the world’s market gyrations produced fewer asset fees and made it more difficult to pay out on annuities.
The insurer added that the [...]

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 [...]