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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been suffering a big decline this year, and the multinacional conglomerate General Electric (stock ticker: GE) is falling hard in spite of being classified as a conservative stock.

GE has a PER (price over earnings per share) of 7.75, quite an attractive figure for such an important company. Good margins, constant growth and tremendous background are some facts that makes GE a quite stable and trustworthy investment. Dividend yield of 8,1% is quite high for a big firm.

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Some months ago, most bullish investors believed that the financial sector is the one that offers a more attractive opportunity to make money; or at least they thought so.Financials were recovering from its momentary low values; particularlly, Citigroup (stock ticker: C), recovered since the March low of $17.99 to $29, but fell hardly to $6.08 today.The high of $55.55, almost 12 months ago, shows as that depresion fears aren´t a joke; the world´s largest  financial company lost almost 90% of its market value. Read the rest of this entry »

AIG is a member of the Dow Jones Index, and therefore a very representative company of the US economy as a whole. We can see in the above chart, that its current moment is quite difficult:

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Rescue of Citigroup comes with strings attached

The International Herald Tribune informed that Citigroup (stock ticker: C) will halt dividend payments for the next three years and agree to restrictions on executive compensation under terms of the U.S. government rescue of the struggling bank, it was revealed Monday.

Citigroup had to make the concessions in return for the U.S. government’s direct investment of about $20 billion in the bank and an agreement to back about $306 billion in loans and securities.

Investors reacted positively to the rescue, sending stocks higher on Wall Street and the big European exchanges. The Dow Jones industrial average was 280 points higher in midafternoon trading, extending its 300-point rally Friday as financial shares began to recover. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index rose 4.7 percent. The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50, an index of blue-chip shares, closed up 9.9 percent, as did the FTSE 100 in London.

Shares of Citigroup - perhaps the market gauge most widely watched Monday morning - were 53 percent higher and traded above $6 a share for the first time since Thursday. A year ago, the shares were trading at about $30. Read the rest of this entry »