Report: Sears reaches 11th-hour deal to stay in business
ByMatt Keller 
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
NEW YORK -- It looks like Sears will stay open for now. The retail chain has reached an 11th-hour deal to keep 425 stores from shutting down, according to CNN.
A judge still needs to approve the agreement.
Sears was prepared to ask a bankruptcy judge to allow it to liquidate after failing to reach an agreement with Eddie Lampert, who runs the hedge fund which controls Sears, but the sides eventually agreed to a deal.
Lampert acquired Kmart in 2003 and Sears in 2005 and merged them together.
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