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US government may end up with 36% stake

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Spread betting and contracts for differences on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">individual equities</span> should consider that the US government is working out a deal to take a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123573611480193881.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business" target="_blank" title="US government Citi, individual equities, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread betting equities, US government, Dow">36% stake in Citi</a>. Additionally, the deal would cause problems for 3/4 of the current shareholders.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">It is no surprise, then, that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Citi shares plunged today</span>. On top of the stake, the government is planning to shake up the Board. All of this is raising concerns in America about <a href="http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/226980" target="_blank" title="US government Citi, individual equities, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread betting equities, US government, Dow">Citi nationalisation</a>.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">The Dow ended down more than 100 points today, inching every closer to the 7,000 mark as the Citi news, combined with the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">US GDP news</span>, continued to send jitters through the financial markets.</span></span></div> 9 application/xml false contracts for differences Dow individual equities spread betting spread betting equities US government US government Citi Spread betting on equities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.66.2 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web