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Reporter: Right. Tell me what had happened to Citibank. Not going all the way back-and I want to talk about risk management in a second—but why was the stock collapsing? And why did you feel it was necessary to say we need to do something about short selling?
記者：是的。請跟我們說一下花旗集團的經歷，不是所有的事情，我想要說一下有關于風險管理的問題，為什么股票會崩潰呢？為什么您認為有必要說，我們需要將其拋空呢？
Vikram Pandit: There’s no doubt that a lot of banks have come into this market with assets and securities that they wish they hadn’t had. These are loans，loans that they make. And in a tough market, they are challenge loans. And we knew that. We had those on our balance sheets. And we did everything we could to make sure we raised the right amount of capital. We raised a lot of it. We cut our cost structure correctly, and had a plan. We do have a plan to make sure that as we get out of these assets, the company starts making money. And our fear was that some of the issues- about Citi’s assets and asset quality were being translated into people taking action on the stock. Not only some people who had stock they were selling, but particularly short sellers.
潘迪特：無疑，有很多銀行在打進市場時都帶有很多資產和有價證券，而這并不是他們所希望有的，其中包括他們做出的借款。但是在一個充滿困難的市場之中，他們這是在向借貸挑戰。我們了解這個情況，我們的資產負債表中有借貸的記錄，我們盡自己一切所能去確保我們增加適量的股本總額。我們籌集了很多資金我們現在正確地解除了我們的費用結構，并且我們有一個計劃以保證當我們擺脫那些資產的時候，公司開始盈利。我們擔心的一些問題是花旗的資產和資產質量會轉化成一些人的股票，不僅僅是正在賣出股票的人們，還有那些拋空的人。
Reporter: Or if you didn’t, what would happen?
記者：如果您不那樣做的話，可能會怎么樣？
Vikram Pandit: That’s anybody’s guess, and we’ll never find out. Because when you look at what happened over the weekend, everybody got ahead of it.
潘迪特：這也是所有人的猜想，而我們永遠都不知道會如何。因為從周末發生的事情來看，大家的想法都超前了。
Reporter: And you lost in a week 50 percent of your value?
記者：您在一周時間了損失了50%的價值，是嗎？
Vikram Pandit: We did indeed. The stock price went down about 50 percent in a week. And so, I think it was important, as we all talked, that we got ahead of this. And that’s really what happened over the weekend.
潘迪特：確實是這樣，股票價格在一周之內下跌了50%，因此我認為我們能夠跨過這個門檻是很重要的，這也正是上周末發生的事情。
