Goldman Sachs took the knife to its Wall Street rivals yesterday, predicting that the credit crunch would force Citigroup to slash its dividend by 40 per cent, reports The Times .
At the same time it emerged that Merrill Lynch was preparing to cut 1,600 jobs from its trading desks. William Tanona, a leading Goldman Sachs analyst, said that Citigroup, the world’s largest bank, would have to cut its payout to shareholders to preserve its capital position and write off $18 billion (£9 billion) of assets in the fourth quarter, compared with earlier estimates of $11 billion. Goldman said that Citigroup would need fresh capital of between $5 billion and $10 billion in addition to a recent $7.5 billion commitment from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Under that deal, t...
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