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Citigroup (C) Warning: Banks In Trouble Into 2009

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Citigroup (C) came clean about what everyone with any sense already expected. Write-offs at the money center bank are not over.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the "bank will see a fresh round of write-downs from failing mortgage investments in the bank’s second-quarter results, and said credit costs from souring consumer loans "may continue to rise throughout the year."

After bottoming in March, a number of bank and brokerage stocks recovered as much as 20% into April and May. Several large financial company CEOs said that the worst of the crisis had passed.

The grim reality of the long-term situation has set in with raising mortgage defaults and a troubled consumer credit market. As bad news came out of UBS (UBS), Bank of America (BAC), Lehman (LEH), and AIG (AIG), stocks in the sector started to sell off and a number have hit new 52-week lows.

None of these stock will recover during 2008, and some may not move up for over a year. Wall St. doesn’t like all of the new surprises.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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