<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91921071230884272.post-7668568334224255245</id><published>2009-01-13T16:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T01:42:31.927-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='citigroup'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joint venture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business deal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wealth management business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business agreement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Morgan Stanley'/><title type='text'>Morgan Stanley, Citi disclose venture</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SW01Olb-a8I/AAAAAAAACzA/aQBYmbdqWG0/s1600-h/citi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SW01Olb-a8I/AAAAAAAACzA/aQBYmbdqWG0/s320/citi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290943661914090434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28642394/"&gt;Citigroup, Inc&lt;/a&gt;. is said to have been taking its first and major step in reorganizing the entire company as it recently disclosed an agreement, a venture with &lt;a href="http://http//newsticker.welt.de/?module=smarthouse&amp;amp;id=832368"&gt;Morgan Stanley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citigroup also plans to substantially trim proprietary trading, which had been consuming significant amounts of scarce capital. The new strategy is expected to be announced when the bank reports fourth-quarter results Jan. 22, the Journal reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shares of Citigroup rose 5.4% to $5.90 Tuesday, reversing losses from earlier in the day. Morgan Stanley shares added 7 cents to close at $18.86.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http//www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Citi-takes-first-step-could/story.aspx?guid=%7B47DFDEBB-1325-4B92-904C-F38B4588F5C0%7D"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/91921071230884272-7668568334224255245?l=www.marketsnmoney.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/feeds/7668568334224255245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=91921071230884272&amp;postID=7668568334224255245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/7668568334224255245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/7668568334224255245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/2009/01/morgan-stanley-citi-disclose-venture.html' title='Morgan Stanley, Citi disclose venture'/><author><name>Trader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13309761269649139032</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06363951870851608878'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SW01Olb-a8I/AAAAAAAACzA/aQBYmbdqWG0/s72-c/citi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry>