WEEKEND INVESTOR --- This Week
The Consumer-Lending</br></br>Outlook Brightens</br></br>Citigroup suggested its worst losses from bad loans may be past. When it reported first-quarter earnings, the banking giant said it had reduced provisions for loan losses in the U.S. and abroad by 16% from a year earlier. That signals consumer balance sheets may be improving.</br></br>More Evidence of a</br></br>Housing Rebound