Citi shares drop after Tarp repayment announcement

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Citigroup shares dropped sharply yesterday following the bank’s announcement that it shortly intends to exit the US Treasury’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (Tarp) by repaying $20 billion in taxpayer funds.

In an internal email, Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit detailed the bank's plans to arrange “a series of transactions to repay the $20 billion of Tarp outstanding and terminate the asset guarantee we received from the US government”.

Equity markets reacted negatively to the

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