Hair-shirt Citi shaves bond costs but can’t escape TLGP
Citigroup’s better than expected second quarter results and the continued positive tone for financials helped it to achieve a sharply lower cost of funds when it issued a $2.5bn 30 year unguaranteed bond on Monday. But the borrower remains a long way short of being able to fund itself economically without government support.
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