{"id":11216,"date":"2009-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dealing-with-phibro-the-best-choice-for-citigroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/dealing-with-phibro-the-best-choice-for-citigroup.html","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Phibro: The Best Choice for Citigroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; Selling a controlling stake in Phibro won&rsquo;t cut it for <strong>Citigroup<\/strong>, Breakingviews writes. <\/p>\n<p> Sure, it would probably quell some of the uproar around the flashpoint that put Citi&#8217;s full ownership of <strong>Phibro<\/strong>, a commodities trading unit, under public scrutiny: the $100 million bonus due to Phibro&rsquo;s boss, Andrew J. Hall, this year. But the debate has since moved on to whether such a venture belongs in Citi&#8217;s portfolio of businesses at all. That is hard for the bank to justify.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/10\/dealing-with-phibro-the-best-choice-for-citigroup\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Blogs &#8211; Selling a controlling stake in Phibro won&rsquo;t cut it for Citigroup, Breakingviews writes. Sure, it would probably quell some of the uproar around the flashpoint that put Citi&#8217;s full ownership of Phibro, a commodities trading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[310,1162,1598,15095,9001,218,6819,15099,15098,4291,15094,15096,11183,1422,15097],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-bonus","tag-boss","tag-breakingviews","tag-citi","tag-citigroup","tag-commodities-trading","tag-flashpoint","tag-j-hall","tag-new-york-times","tag-phibro","tag-public-scrutiny","tag-rsquo","tag-stake","tag-uproar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}