Finance Roundtable

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity.

Deal Journal is live blogging Ben Bernanke's testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

A roundup of the blog posts and articles from around the Web.

To hear the way Dick Fuld describes it, Lehman simply never got the memo: The firm would be rescued, after all.

Sinochem has hired HSBC to advise Sinochem on its options regarding Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, following BHP Billiton's bid for the Canadian fertilizer company, a person familiar with the situation said, in the latest sign of Chinese interest in the deal.

The Big Mac probably has no bigger fan than Bill Clinton. What then will the former president say about his new son-in-law’s hedge fund bidding for the Mac’s chief rival?

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Two years after the investment bank declared bankruptcy, Dick Fuld remains resolute in his opinion that Lehman was not the main culprit of its own demise. Deal Journal is live blogging the hearing.

Written testimony from former Lehman CEO Dick Fuld to be delivered later this morning before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

Private equity is going back for a second helping of Burger King.

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity.