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CIT gains breathing space to restructure debt

By Saskia Scholtes in New York

Published: August 17 2009 18:42 | Last updated: August 17 2009 23:39

CIT Group on Monday revealed it had won more time to restructure and avert a near-term bankruptcy filing, saying a tender offer for $1bn of the troubled US small business lender’s debt succeeded by a small margin.

The success of the tender offer came as CIT reported a $1.6bn loss for the second quarter, its ninth consecutive loss.

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