Speculating on whether Stanford will have a similar happy return to health upon release would be cruel at this point I feel.

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It will take some time to see whether the split will result in more institutional ownership of Citigroup shares, but as an individual investor, I would not be happy to get 20 shares for the 200 I had originally purchased.

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