Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/11/2012) NYSE Merger Off, Dell Tablet PC

January 11, 2012 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Updated throughout the day

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will offer a tablet PC by the end of the year (Reuters)

Alibaba will reduce the size of a loan its was to use to buy back the 40% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) (Reuters)

A deal between NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will be killed by EC regulators (WSJ)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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