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Twitter Plunges on Traders’ Fear That User Activity May Slow 

Twitter Inc.’s stock is trending, and it’s not up for sure. Traders fear that Twitter Inc.’s decision to suspend more than one million fake accounts per day will haunt the social platform’s number of monthly active users, sending the stock down as much 8.2 percent Monday as of 10:44 a.m. The share drop follows Friday’s post-market when the Washington Post that said the company’s rate of account suspensions has more than doubled since October 2017. The “volume of fake account deletion, albeit good for longer term, raises uncertainty on near-term user growth expectations,” wrote Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jitendra …read more […]

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Citigroup, with limited options, hopes to lure deposits digitally

Citigroup Inc is facing a unique dilemma among the four largest U.S. banks: it is light on deposits from individuals, an important funding source that costs little and tends to stick around. While big rivals grew deposits dramatically after the 2007-2009 financial crisis from their broad networks of branches, Citigroup backed out of all but six U.S. cities and closed one-third of its branches. Executives hope it can lure deposits without opening new branches, acquiring a rival or beating competitors’ rates – three ways to collect deposits with their own costs and risks. …read more […]