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General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) announced a deal Monday, which will result in GE picking up most of Merrill's commercial finance business.

The deal is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2008, and will add an estimated $10 billion plus in assets to GE Capital. Merrill has been hit pretty hard this year with the subprime mortgage mess, and this deal will result in around $1.3 billion worth of capital that the company will be able to allocate elsewhere.

Merrill, which announced a massive $8.4 billion worth of write downs back in October is in the middle of what it is calling a "strategic focus on divesting non-core assets." This sale is beneficial to Merrill because the firm's commercial-lending business has become reliant on companies that do not posses investment-grade credit ratings and pose a financial risk that Merrill does not need to be assuming, especially after Merrill's recent write down.

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