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Accused cop murderer Karen Read faced off against acquaintance Jennifer McCabe for a third day in a Massachusetts court where McCabe’s testimony contradicted key defense arguments.

Read, 45, is on trial in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham on second-degree murder charges for allegedly backing over her boyfriend — Boston police officer John O’Keefe, 46 — with her car and leaving him to die in the cold on Jan. 29, 2022.

O’Keefe’s pal Jennifer McCabe wrapped up her third day on the witness stand Wednesday morning during questioning about when she, Read and third friend Kerry Roberts found O’Keefe in the snow around 6 a.m., according to a report by CBS News .

Read has claimed she was a scapegoat in a conspiracy and O’Keefe was actually killed during a fight at the home of his friend Brian Albert and was later brought outside the Canton, Mass. home to make Read look guilty.

McCabe says Read told her to do a Google search for “how long it takes someone to die in the snow,” and while prosecutors say the searches occurred at 6:23 a.m. and 6:24 a.m., Read’s lawyers have tried to argue the search was conducted by McCabe hours before finding O’Keefe at 2:27 a.m.

“I never searched at 2:27. That is not reality,” McCabe said. “I’m sure [telecommunications company] Cellebrite will be able to explain to you. I certainly can’t.”

Read’s defense attorney Alan Jackson pressed McCabe on the issue even accusing her of deleting the Google search since it could make her look guilty.

“Did you delete that search because you knew you would be implicated in John O’Keefe’s death if that search was found on your phone?” Jackson asked.

“I did not delete that search. I never made that search at 2:23. I never would have left John O’Keefe out in the cold to die. Because he was my friend that I love,” McCabe answered.

McCabe also testified she heard Read say the morning they found O’Keefe, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.”

But Read denies saying this and her lawyers have alleged that McCabe was involved in the cover-up to frame Read.

Read lawyers claim that Read dropped O’Keefe off at a party with his cop friends at McCabe’s home around 12:30 a.m. after the couple had been drinking.

And when she woke up around 4:30 a.m. and O’Keefe still hadn’t returned she called her boyfriend, then McCabe and O’Keefe’s other friend Kerry Roberts.

Read, McCabe and Roberts drove to O’Keefe’s home and then Albert’s looking for him only to find him unconscious in a snowbank, with skull fractures, swollen eyes and hyperthermia.

But prosecutors claim that Read and O’Keefe got into a drunken fight in her car while she was dropping him off and she intentionally backed her Lexus SUV into him out of anger.

A federal probe has been launched over whether a police cover-up occurred in the handling of O’Keefe’s murder.

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Citi Trader Got 711 Warning Messages Before Sparking Flash Crash

(Bloomberg) -- For one Citigroup Inc. trader in London, the morning of May 2, 2022 went from bad to worse.

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It was a public holiday in the UK, so it should have been a quiet day in the markets. A little before 9 a.m., the staffer on Citigroup’s Delta One trading desk — who was working from home — began putting together a trade that would hedge the bank’s exposure to the MSCI World Index.

A tool that employees usually used for such a transaction wasn’t available that morning, so the trader had to manually build the basket of stocks. That’s where things started to go wrong.

In Citigroup’s systems, traders have the option of either entering the notional value of a trade they want to make or entering the quantity of index units they want to trade. On that day in May, the trader meant to create a basket of equities valued at $58 million, but accidentally entered that 58 million into the quantity field instead, creating a mammoth $444 billion basket containing 349 stocks from 13 different countries.

The Wall Street giant’s systems immediately fired off hundreds of warnings, ultimately blocking some — but not all — of the trade from going through. Still, about $1.4 billion worth of equities began to be sold across European exchanges.

Markets immediately started going haywire. Within minutes, the trader realized the mistake and canceled the order. But the damage was done: The blunder had sparked a five-minute selloff in European stocks, wreaking havoc in bourses stretching from France to Norway.

Two years on, UK regulators on Wednesday revealed the result of their long-running probe into Citigroup’s actions that day as they saddled the bank with £61.6 million ($78 million) in penalties for the mistake. Their findings offer the first window into how a fat-finger glitch — along with a bevy of risk management lapses — turned into a flash crash that at one point wiped €300 billion ($325 billion) off European stocks.

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It’s the latest blow for Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser, who has spent years trying to shore up the lending giant’s underlying risk management systems.

“These failings led to over a billion pounds of erroneous orders being executed and risked creating a disorderly market,” Steve Smart, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority, said in a statement. “We expect firms to look at their own controls and ensure that they are appropriate given the speed and complexity of financial markets.”

The trader has since left Citigroup, according to people familiar with the matter. A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment.

Fifteen Minutes

Just before the trader began putting together the errant transaction, a separate team at Citigroup was figuring out how to handle its responsibilities for the day.

The bank’s algorithmic service desk, which normally oversees the real-time monitoring of internal executions, had decided to transfer those responsibilities to the electronic execution desk because it had staff out on scheduled leave that day.

When the trader first input the erroneous trade, he was met with a wall of 711 warning messages. He quickly overrode the ones he could and the order was placed at 8:56 a.m.

Trades began being executed across exchanges in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, sparking a sudden drop in European indexes. Inside Citigroup, executives were puzzled by the dip and consulted newswires to try to figure out what was behind it.

By 9:10 a.m., the trader had canceled the order, saddling Citigroup with a $48 million loss.

The electronic execution desk had been receiving hundreds of alerts about the erroneous trade but failed to escalate any of them. A separate team known as the e-trading risk and controls team also escalated the incident to the electronic execution desk but not until 9:31 a.m.

“The immediate cause of the trading error was a manual input error by the trader,” the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority said Wednesday in its findings. “The error was then not identified by either of the firm’s risk functions dedicated to real-time monitoring of the firm’s trades, but by the trader some 15 minutes after the trade was entered into the firm’s systems.”

Hard, Soft Blocks

Citigroup’s systems had two lines of defense against these kinds of errant trades: Soft blocks and hard blocks.

The bank sets a series of thresholds for each type of block. If a trade triggers one of these, a pop-up appears. Soft blocks can be overridden, but not hard blocks.

Citigroup had increased some of these thresholds to account for the periods of heightened volatility during the pandemic. But two years on, it hadn’t reset those limits.

Still, it was these hard blocks that stopped some of the trade from going through. But the UK regulators on Wednesday noted that in the US, Citigroup had rules in place since 2013 that would have stopped all of the trade from going through.

“We are pleased to resolve this matter from more than two years ago, which arose from an individual error that was identified and corrected within minutes,” Citigroup said in a statement. “We immediately took steps to strengthen our systems and controls, and remain committed to ensuring full regulatory compliance.”

The penalties come as a blow to Citigroup’s equities trading unit, led by Fater Belbachir. The division has spent years trying to climb the ranks of stock trading, but it remains far behind rivals like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or JPMorgan Chase & Co.

When regulators were formulating how big of a penalty to assess on Citigroup for the failures, they said that they considered that the trading desks within the bank’s Delta One division that used the order management system at the heart of the blunder had generated roughly $612 million in the nine years leading up to the errant trade, or an average of about $68 million a year.

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That would mean that between the fines and the trading losses from the day, the erroneous trade cost those desks nearly two years of revenue.

--With assistance from Laura Noonan.

(Updates with more information about trader in tenth paragraph.)

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The US economy is headed for a hard landing this year, and deep rate cuts are the only solution, Citi chief economist says

• Citigroup's chief US economist told CNBC a deteriorating labor market was setting up a hard landing.
• Andrew Hollenhorst said a gradual softening in the job market is happening and "tends to snowball."
• He's calling for four interest-rate cuts this year; other forecasters are being more conservative.

A deteriorating labor market will be what causes the US economy to quickly turn sour, according to Andrew Hollenhorst, Citigroup's chief US economist. In fact, he sees an abrupt economic comeuppance later this year.

"Firms are hiring at a lower rate. Firms are having workers work less hours," he told CNBC on Tuesday. "So this gradual softening has already started. That tends to snowball and end up in something that looks more like a hard landing."

While recent labor-market data doesn't necessarily point to such a dire situation, Hollenhorst argued that certain reports revealed a more pessimistic environment than many may realize. A hard landing is a troublesome prospect, since a full-fledged recession can follow.

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"Small businesses are telling us that their hiring intentions are at the lowest levels that we've seen since 2016," he said, citing survey data from the National Federation of Independent Business. "And if I look overall at the economy, the hiring rate right now is at the lowest rate that it's been at since 2014. So we're at the lowest hiring rate in a decade."

Though NFIB data has fueled bearish sentiment for a while, Hollenhorst said a recent sharp drop from previous months made it worth paying attention to.

Even when taking a holistic perspective, there are reasons to worry. For instance, Hollenhorst argued that while the national unemployment rate has remained at about 3.9%, that's a big shift from its previous low of 3.5%.

Hollenhorst predicted that unemployment ticking up above 4% could trigger the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates as soon as July. Overall, he thinks four cuts will come before the end of 2024.

Other analysts have also voiced hard-landing calls pegged to labor-market deterioration. The veteran forecaster Danielle DiMartino Booth has said one unemployment indicator suggests a recession has already arrived .

Meanwhile, Hollenhorst said the likelihood of a July cut was bolstered by the prospect of a hard landing and weaker economic activity — specifically, he argued that the Fed's higher-for-longer interest-rate policy was grinding down on corporate earnings at a time when consumer savings have been run through.

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Ranking MLB stadiums from oldest to newest: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field to Globe Life Field

How old is each MLB stadium?

Which MLB stadiums are the oldest? Which are the newest?

Take a look at each MLB team's current stadium, ranked from oldest to newest, based on the date of the team's first game in that ballpark.

There are 14 current MLB stadiums that were constructed prior to 2000, with some historic venues (Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field) among them — ballparks that probably won't be replaced anytime soon due to the nostalgia surrounding the parks.

That leaves 16 current MLB ballparks that started being used in the 2000 season or even more recently. The Texas Rangers' Globe Life Field is the most recently constructed stadium.

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MLB stadium rankings from oldest to newest

• Boston Red Sox - Fenway Park: April 20, 1912
• Chicago Cubs - Wrigley Field: April 23, 1914
• Los Angeles Dodgers - Dodger Stadium: April 10, 1962
• Los Angeles Angels - Angel Stadium: April 19, 1966
• Oakland Athletics - Oakland Coliseum: April 17, 1968
• Kansas City Royals - Kaufman Stadium: April 10, 1973
• Toronto Blue Jays - Rogers Centre: June 5, 1989
• Chicago White Sox - Guaranteed Rate Field: April 18, 1991
• Baltimore Orioles - Oriole Park at Camden Yards: April 6, 1992
• Cleveland Guardians - Progressive Field: April 4, 1994
• Colorado Rockies - Coors Field: April 26, 1995
• Tampa Bay Rays - Tropicana Field: March 31, 1998
• Arizona Diamondbacks - Chase Field: March 31, 1998
• Seattle Mariners - T-Mobile Park: July 15, 1999
• Houston Astros - Minute Maid Park: April 7, 2000
• Detroit Tigers - Comerica Park: April 11, 2000
• San Francisco Giants - Oracle Park: April 11, 2000
• Milwaukee Brewers - American Family Field: April 6, 2001
• Pittsburgh Pirates - PNC Park: April 9, 2001
• Cincinnati Reds - Great American Ball Park: March 31, 2003
• San Diego Padres - Petco Park: April 8, 2004
• Philadelphia Phillies - Citizens Bank Park: April 12, 2004
• St. Louis Cardinals - Busch Stadium: April 10, 2006
• Washington Nationals - Nationals Park: March 30, 2008
• New York Mets - Citi Field: April 13, 2009
• New York Yankees - Yankee Stadium: April 16, 2009
• Minnesota Twins - Target Field: April 12, 2010
• Miami Marlines - loanDepot park: April 4, 2012
• Atlanta Braves - Truist Park, April 14, 2017
• Texas Rangers - Globe Life Field: July 24, 2020

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