The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Global bond rates dropped to their lowest levels of the year Wednesday, as central bankers signaled their determination to jolt the world's largest economies out of their malaise. Investors piled into U.S., German and British government bonds, used to price everything from mortgages to car loans, driving down their yields. (r.reuters.com/faw39v)* Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Michael Corbat said in a memo Wednesday that the bank had fired 11 employees in its Banamex unit in connection with the loan losses from Mexico's Oceanografia SA de CV that the bank has blamed on fraud. (r.reuters.com/raw39v)
Citigroup Inc. (Citigroup) is a global diversified financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management. Shares of C fell by 0.63% or $-0.3/share to $47.12. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $45.06 and as high as $55.28. On average, 25613900 shares of C exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 12406415.
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