亂彈煤井新聞 -- December\'s Retails Sales

1. December 2008, Total retail sales fell: 2.7 percent vs 1.2 percent expected, $343.2billion
2. Citigroup is planning to adopt the equivalent of a "good bank, bad bank" structure to avoid collapse.the bad bank will have about $600 billion of assets, almost 1/3 of Citigroup's balance sheet. Citigroup has received$25+20 billion as part of a rescue package
3. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney: more than 20K borkers, $1.7trillion assets, the largest U.S. brokerage!!
4. What's Fed Ben Bernanke's choice before he left: Buying troubled assets; Providing asset guarantees; Setting up a so called "bad bank" to buy assets