BUSINESS BRIEFING / THE ECONOMY
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
CIT Group Inc., a lender to small and midsize businesses, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing after so far failing to win a government guarantee to help it borrow, according to a published report.
An unidentified source told the Wall Street Journal that CIT was still hopeful it would win access to a federal guarantee program because “the government has not said absolutely no to anything.”
CIT declined to comment. The New York company received $2.3 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program in December after becoming a bank holding company.
