The FINANCIAL -- Deutsche Bank announced the launch of the DB Market-Implied US Inflation Rate Index, the first index to offer investors an overall measure of inflation expectations implied by the difference in yields between US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and US Nominal Treasuries, according to Deutsche Bank.

The FINANCIAL -- Citigroup reported net income of $1.2 billion, or $0.38 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter 2011 on revenues of $17.2 billion, according to Citigroup.

The FINANCIAL -- Global investors have started 2012 with a reawakened sense of optimism towards the global economy and greater appetite for risk, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for January, according to Bank of America.

The FINANCIAL -- Developing countries should prepare for further downside risks, as Euro Area debt problems and weakening growth in several big emerging economies are dimming global growth prospects, says the World Bank in the newly-released Global Economic Prospects 2012, according to The World Bank .

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank announced the appointment of Makhtar Diop, a Senegalese national, as its new Vice President for Africa. He succeeds Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili who will return to Nigeria in early May after serving as the region's Vice President since 2007, according to The World Bank .