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June 2011 Archives

"Did QE2 work?"
June30, 2011 By Citi
CNBC featured Citi's Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Tobias Levkovich debating the impact of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program on...
Joining the Better Buildings Challenge.
June30, 2011
Citi today announced that it is one of the initial 14 partners to join President Obama's Better Buildings Challenge and...
"Making the Leap."
June30, 2011 By Citi
In a new blog post, Women & Co's Linda Descano relates strategies that women launching new businesses have used to...
CitiMortgage Road to Recovery Tour: An update.
June29, 2011 By Sanjiv Das, CEO, CitiMortgage
This month, CitiMortgage concluded a 10-city Road to Recovery Tour of cities nationwide aimed at helping struggling homeowners find much-needed,...
Citi Italy wins 2011 Green Globe Banking Award.
June29, 2011 By Citi
Citi Italy's headquarters in Milan pictured at left today and at right circa 1930.   This month, Citi was...
Perret-Green on China markets rally.
June27, 2011 By Citi
In an appearance on CNBC, Patrick Perret-Green, Citi's head of FX and rates strategy for Asia, discussed the recent rally...
American Banker magazine leads with Citi profile.
June27, 2011 By Citi
The premier issue of the redesigned American Banker magazine features a cover story on the transformation of Citi under the...
The FT Alphaville blog highlights Citi note on Greek debt roll-over issues.
June27, 2011 By Citi
In "Who will roll-up, roll-up - to the Greek roll-over?," the FT Alphaville blog focuses on a new note from...
Turning lemons into lemonade.
June27, 2011 By Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management
If the recent stock-market turmoil has left you with investments in your regular taxable account that are worth less than...
Citibank opens innovative flagship branch in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C.
June24, 2011 By Citi
Cece Stewart, President of U.S. Consumer and Commercial Banking, this week joined the team at Citibank's new flagship branch...
Cozette and me.
June24, 2011 By Heather Dahill, Chief Operating Officer, Women & Co.
On the Women & Co. blog, Heather Dahill runs through many expenses that come with owning a dog in New...
In the FT: Morse's "IEA drawdown marks major shift in oil price policy."
June24, 2011 By Citi
Ed Morse, Citi's Global Head of Commodities Research, examines the "precedent-setting" aspects of the International Energy Agency's announced drawdown of strategic...
Using innovative financing to expand a Lakota Pine Ridge school.
June24, 2011 By Citi
Citi Community Capital, the community development lending and investing arm of Citi, in partnership with Dakotas America LLC, the primary...
Helping military veterans tap job opportunities on Wall Street.
June23, 2011 By Suni Harford, Regional Head of Markets, Citi
Our nation's veterans possess so many excellent skills: leadership, maturity, competitive drive and the ability to work under pressure and...
Expanding emerging markets credit coverage.
June23, 2011 By Citi
Citi strengthened its emerging markets credit team, with the recent hires of strategists and traders focused on key global growth...
Orszag writes for Foreign Affairs.
June23, 2011 By Citi
Peter Orszag, Vice Chair of Global Banking, Citigroup, and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, has published an essay...
Levkovich characterizes slowdown as "soft patch."
June22, 2011 By Citi
In special coverage ahead of today's Federal Open Market Committee decision from Citi's trading floor, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist Tobias...
Citi's new global Facebook page.
June20, 2011 By Joanna Colvin, VP, Social Media, Citi
Citigroup customers around the world are connected to each other in so many ways--and now, Citi is connecting with them...
Providing scholarships and hope to LGBT students.
June20, 2011 By Jorge Valencia, CEO and Executive Director, Point Foundation
Marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) youth remains prevalent in our communities, homes, and in classrooms. As if...
Risky business.
June20, 2011 By Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management
Am I taking too much risk? To answer this question, we'll often look at our portfolio, focusing on the mix...
Out and proud.
June16, 2011 By J. Kevin Jones, Jr., Deputy Director, Out & Equal
In many places throughout the United States and around the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities and their...
Citi is contender for premier sustainable banking prize.
June16, 2011 By Citi
Citi has been shortlisted for "Cross-Regional Sustainable Bank of the Year" in tonight's Sustainable Finance Awards organized by the Financial...
Financing One World Trade Center.
June15, 2011 By Citi
New York has always been Citi's home--in fact our first branch was built in 1812 at 55 Wall Street,...
Englander looks at pressures on global currencies.
June13, 2011 By Citi
In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Steven Englander, head of Group of 10 currency strategy at Citi, discusses the outlook...
June Chart of the Month: Equity market reading countervailing signals.
June13, 2011 By Tobias Levkovich, Chief US Equity Strategist, Citi
Industrial data matters for S&P 500 performance. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) new orders index has been tightly correlated...
Five mental mistakes.
June13, 2011 By Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management
We may be investing for distant goals, like our toddler's college education and our own retirement. Yet we often fret...
"The Chiettis Come Clean About Money."
June10, 2011 By Citi
At a family reunion, Women's & Co's Linda Descano challenges three generations to discuss what money means to them. Read...
Buiter on global growth.
June 9, 2011 By Citi
In an appearance on Bloomberg TV, Willem Buiter, Chief Economist at Citi, reacts to the World Bank's downgrading of global...
Citi's YouTube channel gets a new look.
June 9, 2011 By Citi
Citi's YouTube channel--the home of more than 100 videos featuring Citi talent, expertise and global reach--has a brand new style....
CitiMortgage Road to Recovery Tour.
June 9, 2011 By Citi
CitiMortgage is in the midst of a 10-city tour that is helping distressed homeowners find solutions to their mortgage concerns--whether...
Supporting opportunities for soccer.
June 8, 2011 By Citi
With the Women's World Cup in Germany just weeks away, several elite players on the roster for Team USA led...
Kalvaria on deal climate.
June 8, 2011 By Citi
In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Leon Kalvaria, vice chairman of Citi's Institutional Clients Group, discusses the climate for M&A,...
"Confessions of a Wannabe Entrepreneur."
June 8, 2011 By Citi
Women & Co.'s Lauren Coulston blogs about harboring a few business ideas that she would like to develop. Check out...
Helping charter schools find space to grow.
June 6, 2011 By Citi
The launch of the Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment group designed to help charter schools find permanent school...
Do women entrepreneurs make better use of social media?
June 6, 2011 By Citi
Women & Co.'s Linda Descano looks at findings showing a gender difference in how female and male small business owners...
Juggling financial goals.
June 6, 2011 By Jonathan Clements, Director of Financial Education, Citi Personal Wealth Management
When it comes to managing money, many of us can be a little shortsighted, focusing on upcoming financial goals and...
Levkovich looks at factors weighing on stocks.
June 3, 2011
In an interview on Fox Business, Citi's Chief US Equity Strategist Tobias Levkovich discusses market volatility and concerns over a...
Citi and the Citi Foundation's $25 million university research initiative.
June 2, 2011 By Citi
Citigroup is proud to announce today the launch of the Financial Insights Project. Over the next five years, the Citi...
Misperceptions about the impact of higher commodity prices.
June 2, 2011 By Tobias Levkovich, Chief US Equity Strategist, Citi
The financial media is full of pundits worrying that corporate profit margins will be hurt by higher commodity prices even...
CNBC covers launch of the Google Wallet.
June 1, 2011 By Citi
Paul Galant, CEO of Citi's Global Enterprise Payments, spoke to CNBC about Citi's role as the lead bank in the...
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