We recently updated our analysis to account for the merger and subsequent reverse stock split.

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When Citigroup (C) goes through its 1 for 10 reverse split, both technical analysts and high frequency traders will be making adjustments.

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The time for a reverse split is when there are real earnings and you would want to make them appear larger when spread over a smaller share count.

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Data obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request by David Patch, a well-known blogger in the movement to eradicate manipulative naked short-selling, showed an astonishingly high degree of trade settlement failures in Global Links shares in the days and weeks following a 350-to-1 reverse split in February 2005.

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Buying in 10% of the shares is mathematically identical to paying a special dividend equivalent to 10% of the market cap and then declaring a 9-for-10 reverse stock split.

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The 80%-20% sales split today between traditional and CFL bulbs in the U.S. today will reverse within five years, Yan says, helping to create demand for hundreds of millions of replacement bulbs globally.

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