Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/20/2010)
Updated throughout the day. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will name the head of its wireless unit as the parent’s president and chief operating officer (WSJ) India will ask cellular providers in the nation to upgrade networks so it can track messages…
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will name the head of its wireless unit as the parent’s president and chief operating officer (WSJ)
India will ask cellular providers in the nation to upgrade networks so it can track messages from the Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry. (Reuters)
American International Group (NYSE: AIG) plans to list its AIA unit on October 29 to raise $15 billion. (Reuters)
Sahara India Pariwar will bid $2 billion for MGM (Bloomberg)
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