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Today's Best Market Rumors (12/8/200) (S)(AAPL)(GOOD)(MOT)

Updated throughout the day.

Updated 2.33 PM EST: Hollywood companies may buy some game publishers including Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Take-Two (NASDAQ:TTWO) (Barron’s)

Updated 9.54 AM EST:  Sprint’s (NYSE:S) customer base is continuing to erode (Pali via Barron’s)

Updated 9.50 EST: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) paid $17 million for music service Lala.  (TechCrunch)

Citigroup (NYSE:C) and the government are in a battle over the terms of the bank repaying TARP funds.  (various)

Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) new CEO is expected to shake up top management (various)

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) is worth more in pieces than as an intact company  (Barron’s)

The federal government could block Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) buyout of AdMob (WSJ)

Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) chief risk officer, a candidate for the CEO job at the firm, is under scrutiny in the NY Attorney General probe of the company.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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