Ahold owns Stop & Shop and Giant stores. Credit Christopher Lane for The New York Times. The merger agreement between the Dutch supermarket operator Ahold and the Delhaize Group of Belgium on Wednesday reflected yet another sign of the malaise hanging over the grocery business in the United States.
(ALICO) to MetLife Inc. for $15.5 billion in cash and MetLife stock. Bloomberg L.P. reported on March 29 that after almost three months of delays, AIG had completed the $500 million sale of a portion of its asset management business, branded PineBridge Investments, to the Asia-based Pacific Century Group.
The solution was a bailoutâof AIG, and of the financial system as a whole. The Fed and Treasury made virtually unlimited funds, $182 billion in all, available to AIG so that it could make payments to counterparties like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, and thus spare them from losses.ashington isnât typically known as a theater town. But thereâs a pretty good farce being staged at the Court of Claims, where Maurice âHankâ Greenberg, the 89-year-old former CEO of AIG, is suing the government for not being sufficiently generous in its epic $182 billion bailout of the insurance company.