2 Minutes of Hate: Citigroup, AstraZeneca, and MF Global

It's "2 Minutes of Hate," the bonus edition! Alison Southwick and Dayana Yochim invite themselves into Wall Street's C-Suites, where they find executives popping champagne corks right into shareholders' eyes. There's Citigroup's (NYS: C) "$1 CEO" leapfrogging into a new tax bracket, AstraZeneca's (NYS: AZN) leader losing sleep (and little else) over pink slips, and lastly, the debate over bonus payouts for MF Global (OTC: MFGLQ) executives. (Just typing that last part is enough to raise any investor's ire.)

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