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In private equity, it's good to be king.

Blackstone has struck a deal with Emerson Electric to buy a controlling stake in its climate technologies business. The sizable leveraged buyout cuts against the grain of Wall Street's new reality and speaks volumes about how Blackstone sees the real estate market, the debt market, and its own power in both.

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Source Fool.com