Citigroup today posted its fourth straight quarterly loss, hurt by increasing credit losses and write-downs tied to complex and low quality debt.
The net loss totaled $2.82 billion, or 60 cents per share, and compared with a profit of $2.21 billion, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier.
Including discontinued operations, the loss was $3.42 billion, or 71 cents per share. Revenue from continuing operations fell 23 per cent to $16.68 billion.
Shares of Citigroup edged up 9 cents to $16.32 in pre-market trading.
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Results included $4.42 billion of net write-downs tied to mortgage debt, leveraged loans, monoline insurers, structured investment vehicles and auction-rate securities.