Did Citi sell something? All signs point to yes, but beyond that it’s hard to say. Citigroup announced on Monday that it sold three credit card portfolios representing $1.3 billion in managed assets as part of a plan to unload weak businesses and troubled assets. The third-largest U.S. bank by...

Walt Disney’s $4 billion offer for Marvel Entertainment would give it more than 5,000 comic book characters, including such mighty heroes as Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. Disney’s Bob Iger told CNBC that the expanded roster will help bring more boys to the home of the Magic...

If the bottom of the cycle has arrived for the oil and gas services business, then Baker Hughes‘ $5.5 billion stock-and-cash deal to buy smaller rival BJ Services may well be the beginning of a broad consolidation in the industry.  The premium is hardly as juicy as one might expect at 16...

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This year’s annual August doldrums was one for the record books. U.S. M&A for the month totalled $13 billion, its lowest since February 1994, while global M&A stood at $72 billion, the lowest since February 2003, according to data from Thomson Reuters. The largest U.S. deal was Warner Chilcott’s...

Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross says he plans to invest further in banks, but new capital requirements for private equity investment in the sector are still too tight. Meanwhile, a senior German government official says Opel has the liquidity to operate until next year, as a rift appears to develop...

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