In today's video, Fool analysts Anand Chokkavelu and Andrew Tonner discuss recent events in banking and beyond, including the following:

  • Did Citigroup lose out in its deal to sell its stake in Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley?
  • Is the government's large sale of AIG shares good for AIG in the long term?
  • Are AIG's shares, in turn, a bargain for Wall Street underwriters?
  • We look at the latest tech movements from ... Nike.
  • And we put Apple in context with the U.S. economy.

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