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The head of the International Lease Finance Group said Friday that its owner, the American International Group, would sell the plane-leasing business to a group of investors and the unit’s managem...

Raising cash in the debt markets these days has become nearly impossible for many companies, even for the bluest of blue chips. But there are certain companies that have had an easier time than ot...

Citigroup may not sleep this weekend, as it ponders what to do amid a crisis that may test its survival. But it plans to reassure its customers — by taking out full-page advertisements.
In a serie...

Stanley S. Tollman, a multimillionaire hotel executive who once controlled the Days Inn chain, pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion charges and agreed to pay a total of $105 million to the gove...

President-elect Barack Obama will name Timothy F. Geithner to be his Treasury secretary, according to a knowledgeable Democrat, The New York Times’s Jackie Calmes reports on the Caucus blog.
The c...

From Leslie Wayne, a DealBook colleague:
Bye-bye corporate jets at General Motors.
After flying into flack in Washington, G.M. has decided to return two of its leased corporate jets. G.M. is saying...

The continuing credit crisis and economic downturn will likely change the way that mergers and acquisitions are done, at least for a while.
In particular, in a world where credit is scarce, stock...

Citigroup at $9 a share? Is that wishful thinking?
Mike Mayo, a banking analyst at Deutsche Bank, doesn’t think so. Mr. Mayo argued Friday in a research note that despite the deep sell-off in the ...

Will Washington throw the Big Three a lifeline? That was the $25 billion question going into the weekend after the major Detroit automakers failed, at least for the moment, to get the emergency ai...

Brunswick Group, the public relations firm that often represents companies involved in big mergers, has brought in some star power to help its clients navigate the waters inside The Beltway.
Hilar...