http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGR8yTH2eLwY&pos=1 CIT Group Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection (Update2) Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Tiffany Kary, Dawn McCarty and Lester Pimentel Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- CIT Group Inc., a 101-year-old commercial lender, filed for bankruptcy with financing from investor Carl Icahn after the credit crunch dried up its funding and a U.S. bailout and debt exchange offer failed. New York-based CIT listed $71 billion in assets and $64.9 billion in debt in a Chapter 11 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. None of its operating subsidiaries, including CIT Bank, a Utah-based bank, were included in the filing, and operations will proceed as normal, CIT said in a statement. The bankruptcy âwill allow CIT to continue to provide funding to our small business and middle-market customers,â said Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Peek in a statement. CIT has $1 billion from Icahn to fund operations while it reorganizes. The credit line, to be drawn on until Dec. 31, will be a so-called debtor-in-possession loan. The company had asked bondholders to exchange $30 billion in debt for new securities and equity. Icahn made a competing offer. After CITâs offer expired at midnight on Oct. 29, the company said it was tallying 150,000 ballots. The companyâs debt holders had rejected the exchange offer, with 90 percent of holders who voted opting for the prepackaged bankruptcy plan. The plan will cut $10 billion in debt, and CIT seeks âquick confirmationâ of its plan, CIT Group said in a statement. CIT said it would try to emerge from bankruptcy two months from the date of its filing.
What do you mean by "Did I miss this"? If this is the first you have heard of CIT's troubles then yes.........
Damn. Week before last I saw that Icahn was investing 6 billion in CIT so I picked up 1000 shares at $1.20. Was going to add on another 1000 at $.60 but then on Friday I got a message from IB that CIT trading was halted. Guess that's a $1,200 donation.
Icahn sucked in pick investments recent years. YHOO, Ford, all at the wrong time. wast a lot money, hope that wasn't his own money.
i was wondering if i had missed it being written up earlier this weekend. market is gonna be interesting this week
Scary,you cannot hold a stock overnight. What about other ones. Fnm,free, c. Yea good old Usage is going down to the tubes.
It has been posted on numerous websites with speculation it was going to happen. I don't recall seeing it on a mainstream site, if it was it was buried amongst the "everything is great" stories.