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Today's Best Market Rumors (10/12/2009) (LAZ)(F)(AAPL)

Updated throughout the day.

Updated  1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of Bruce Wasserstein. (various)

Updated 12.32 PM EST: Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone sales in China are weak, but, as Barron’s points out, the iPhone has not gone on sale there yet.

Updated 12.30 PM EST: Ford (NYSE:F) up sharply on rumors that it will beat earnings (various)

Vivendi may be able to block the Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) deal to take control of NBCU from GE (NYSE:GE)  (NYSE:GE).

One of Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) co-presidents may leave after being passed over for the CEO job  (The Deal)

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) may pay out $22 billion in bonuses for its last fiscal year  (The Telegraph)

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