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To: marcher who wrote (280285)	10/1/2010 9:26:07 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 306849

Ireland's finance minister Brian Lenihan ridiculed by City investors Ireland's finance minister was publicly ridiculed on an investor call intended to calm fear over the country's economic woes. Mr Lenihan had been speaking for less than two minutes on Friday before a mistake by Citigroup meant that the bank's clients were all able to be heard on the line. Between 200 and 500 investors are understood to have been on the call, and as they realised their lines were not muted many began to heckle Mr Lenihan. Some traders began making what one banker on the call described as "chimp sounds", while another cried out "dive, dive". A third man said "short Ireland" before adding "why not short Citi too?" As the call descended into chaos, with one participant heard to say "this is the worst conference call ever", Citigroup officials shut down the line. telegraph.co.uk