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CIT “smaller, safer” as profits recover

CIT “smaller, safer” as profits recover

American CIT Group has posted a second quarter profit of $142.1m (€109m), marking the equipment finance giant’s second consecutive quarterly profit after emerging from bankruptcy at the end of last year. The result is an improvement on CIT’s Q1 profit figure of $97.3m, and represents earnings of 71 cents per share.



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