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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Lehman Brothers is engaged in talks with prospective
buyers about offloading some $30 billion in commercial mortgage assets and other
hard-to-value securities that have dogged its balance sheet for months, The New
York Post reported Friday without attribution. Merrill Lynch recently sold about
$30 billion in mortgage assets for 22 cents on the dollar to the Lone Star Funds.

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