Thursday, April 5, 2007

UPDATE 2-Kerkorian offers $4.5 billion to buy Chrysler

(Reuters) - DETROIT, April 5 - Tracinda Corp., the investment vehicle owned by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, on Thursday offered to pay $4.5 billion to buy DaimlerChrysler's struggling Chrysler unit.

The move would return Kerkorian, 89, to some very familiar territory, as he was Chrysler's largest individual shareholder before it was sold to Germany's Daimler-Benz for almost $40 billion in stock in 1998.


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