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Without Leverage, Buyout Deals Plummet

nytimes.com » 2008 » September » 30th » Without Leverage, Buyout Deals Plummet

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Private equity firms surveying the wreckage of America’s financial system have a crucial question — when will credit return? The worsening financial crisis has hampered large buyouts for well over a year. For the year-to-date, global buyout activity plummeted 74 percent from a year ago to a four-year low of $180 billion, Thomson Reuters data showed. “It [...] … Continue Reading »

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