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Monday, February 23, 2009

AIG needs MORE TAX PAYER MONEY!

The American International Group, the battered insurance giant that is now effectively majority-owned by the federal government, is in talks to receive more government aid as it prepares to record another giant loss, a person briefed on the talks told DealBook.

A.I.G. could take as much as another multi-billion dollar hit when it reports earnings during the next week. It expects to disclose losses across a wide variety of holdings, from commercial real estate to credit default swaps, the private contracts that helped lead it to the brink last fall. A loss of that magnitude could lead to another sweep of credit rating downgrades, prompting a fresh round of capital demands that could again pose a serious risk to the firm and its trading partners, this person said

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