WASHINGTON: The US Treasury is to sell US$5bil worth of shares in American International Group Inc (AIG) in a stock offering, with the bailed-out insurer buying US$2bil.
AIG, seen as a symbol of the excesses that epitomised the global financial meltdown in 2008, was saved from almost certain bankruptcy in September that year by the US government.
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