Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/7/2009) (CMCSA)(INTC)

Updated throughout the day.

Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) may drop the name NBC from the name of NBCU  (NYTimes)

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) may open retail stores in the UK (The Times)

Citigroup (NYSE:C) is trying to persuade the government to allow it to pay back TARP  (FT)

Clear Channel may try to raise $2.5 billion (WSJ)

JAL may get $7 billion in loan backing from the Japanese government.  (Reuters)

GM may hire Spencer Stuart to find it a new CEO  (WSJ)

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) may kill the launch of its graphics chip  (TheStreet)

Lack of seasonal work should cause economists to challenge the 10% unemployment rate for November (BusinessInsider)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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