A Lender Gets Caught in the Currents (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Story date: 2008-05-03 02:37:34
Added on: 2008-05-03 15:19:22
The story of CIT illustrates the perils awaiting any firm that jumps into seemingly lucrative new arenas at the expense of focusing on markets that it knows and understands best.
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