Treasury Files to Unload Citi Stake (C)
An SEC filing right after the close of trading on Monday is showing that the Treasury is set to unload shares of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). The filing did not disclose how much is being sold exactly but the filing…
The filing noted, “The United States Department of the Treasury is selling ___ shares of Citigroup common stock, par value $0.01 per share. Citigroup will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock by the Selling Stockholder.”
While this will dump another 2.4 billion shares on the market, this also gets Uncle Sam out of Vikram Pandit’s office and the firm can continue on its path to sell assets and to focus on the core Citigroup.
Citi shares closed flat at $4.45 today and the after-hours activity shows that shares are trading around $4.44.
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