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Citigroup Halfway Done With Staff-Cutting Plan
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Citigroup is about half-way through cutting 10 percent of the 65,000 employees in its investment banking unit, a person familiar with the job cuts said Monday.
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"More than half of those have already been eliminated," the person told The Associated Press.
A major portion of the remaining job cuts are happening this week, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
In total, Citigroup [C
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Many bank analysts expect the company to report another loss for the current quarter. Chief Financial Officer Gary Crittenden last week warned that Citigroup would sustain more substantial write-downs on debt investments known as collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, in the second quarter.
Crittenden also said there will likely be more write-downs related to leveraged loans and bond insurers, and that total credit costs would be higher in the second quarter than in the first due mainly to increased reserves in the mortgage portfolio.
Separately, the Financial Times is reported Goldman Sachs [GS
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Goldman has been a relatively strong performer throughout the credit crunch and recently turned in an impressive second quarter earnings report.
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