Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/3/2009) (S)(HUN)(GE)(AAPL)(F)(TWX)

Updated throughout the day.

Updated 1.17 PM EST: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) may sign up Sprint (NYSE:S) and T-Mobile to market the iPhone in the US  (Barron’s)

Updated 11.29 PM EST:  Huntsman (NYSE:HUN) may be a takeover target for DuPont (NYSE:DD) (VSInvestor)

Commercial real estate will ruin bank earnings next year  (The Street)

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) convinced GE (NYSE:GE) to sell a majority of NBCU in a series of secret meetings  (NY Times)

Pension funds are pulling out of stocks and putting as much as $40 billion into corporate bonds (Bloomberg)

The SEC may increase its investigations of hedge funds  (NYTimes).

A group including two former Ford (NYSE:F) executives is trying to buy Volvo. (WSJ)

Siemens (NYSE:SI) may sell its hearing aid unit for $3 billion (Bloomberg)

The Time, Inc unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) is working on content for the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) tablet PC  (MacRumors)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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