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Today's Best Market Rumors (12/14/2009) (AAPL)(GOOG)(AOL)

Updated throughout the day

AOL (NYSE:AOL) is in talks to sell its ICQ operations to Russian interests.  (various)

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will launch a new handset to be sold directly to consumers by-passing cellular carriers.  (WSJ)

China firms HiSoft, an IT outsourcing company, and NeoPhotonics, an optical components maker plan US IPOs (Reuters)

The Fed is expected to keep rates low at its final meeting of 2009  (CNBC)

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Mac and iPhone sales are better than expected this quarter (SAI)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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