Oil falls

US crude futures for April delivery fell 42 cents to settle at $105.02 a barrel yester day after Kuwait said that OPEC is discussing an output increase.

CitiFinancial

Citigroup is offering partial financing to bid ders for its CitiFinancial unit and may retain a stake in the business, sources told Reuters.

TARP news

The Treasury has re covered 70 percent of $411 billion spent under TARP now that the government has re ceived a $6.9 billion re payment from bailed- out insurer AIG.

Ford bonuses

Ford Motor awarded CEO Alan Mulally $56.5 million in stock, and Ex ecutive Chairman Bill Ford received $42.4 mil lion in shares as a re ward for the automaker’s turnaround.

Debt relief

Freedom Debt Relief, a San Mateo, Calif., debt settlement firm, agreed to pay more than $1 mil lion to end a New York state probe and to re fund more than 5,000 New Yorkers who par ticipated in its program.