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Chrysler's restructuring plan could see the combined equity of owners Cerberus and Daimler shrink to less than 10 per cent, with the rest of the company divided between the US government, the United Auto Workers' union, bank lenders and Italian carmaker Fiat, according to people close to the US carmaker

Latin america's biggest equity markets closed lower Thursday, with losses stemming from declines in energy prices and continued uneasiness about a key element that's missing from the U.S.' plan to s...

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Platinum Equity LLC, a U.S.private equity firm that buys distressed assets, is among thepotential buyers of General Motors Corp's Hummer sportutility vehicle unit, Bloomberg News said on Thursday, citingpeople familiar with the matter.

The equities market turned lower right out of the gate this morning, shrugging off a rare bout of encouraging news from the Commerce Department...(Read More)

Global investors continued their flight from India-focused equity funds, even as inflows into Asia tripled to $219 million in the second week of February.

The equities markets are mired in red today. Obama and his political cohorts are doing their best to “fix” the economy, but investors don’t buy it. Let’s take a closer look at what they aren’t buying. By Andrew Snyder, TodayFinancialNews.comBaltimore - (TFN): With the government meddling with the free market, it is no surprise Wall [...]Post from: TodaysFinancialNews.com LLC

Gold prices are undeniable, as Traders push the precious metal through previous resistance into a new range. Most of the movement can be attributed to strong fundamental buying, and a universal fear regarding the success of Geithner's "Rescue Plan." Equity markets dipped in tandem with overall risk appetite, keeping treasuries overpriced, and propping gold to new levels. It will be a painful and...

London equities came under pressure from resource stocks on Thursday after Rio Tinto unveiled a controversial $19.5bn cash injection from Chinalco, the state-owned Chinese aluminium company.Source : Financial Times (subscribe)Explore : International Markets, Mining, Money, Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto

The U.S. dollar moves higher against major rivals, as investors seek a typical safe haven as equities slip after mixed U.S. economic data.

Here's one of the more radical ways to deal with a private equity deal that has gone bad:The sons of the founder of defunct retailer Mervyns, Mervin Morris, have purchased the retailer's name and all its Internet-related intellectual properties. They're considering reopening locations of the discount department store their father opened nearly 60 years ago in San Lorenzo, Calif.Target sold Mervyns for $1.2 billion to a group of private equity titans in 2004 --- Sun Capital Partners Inc., Cerberus Capital Management L.P., and Lubert-Adler. But the company was liquidated last year after the firms stripped it of real estate assets, nearly doubled its rent, and saddled it with $800 million in debt while sucking out more than $400 million in cash for themselves, according to the company. Mervyns' founder was so upset, he wrote to BusinessWeek that he felt the private equity firms were responsible for the 'rape' of Mervyns. For their part, the one private equity firm willing to comment