US - Insurance and investment giant, American Insurance Group (AIG), has been partially nationalised by the US Federal Reserve after an emergency cash injection of $85bn to avoid a "disorderly failure" of the institution.
The deal, brokered late last night, has seen the US government take a 79.9% share of the company's equity after AIG teetered close to bankruptcy, mere days after investment bank Lehman Brothers col...
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