Today's Best Market Rumors (10/22/2009) (PG)(NYT)(MSFT)

Updated throughout the day.

Update 11.03 AM EST  P&G (PG) may buy the household prooducts unit of Sara Lee (various)

Brian Moynihan, a Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) executive and possible CEO candidate is under scrutiny for his role in the Merrill Lynch buy-out  (NYPost)

The head of Galleon operations in Asia may try to buy that arm of the fund company (Reuters)

China may cut stimulus programs now that its economy is expanding rapidly again.  (MarketWatch)

Twitter may be able to use data deals with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to sharply increase its revenue.  (NYTimes)

John Meriwether of the collapsed Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund may make his third run at the money management business  (FT)

A New York Times (NYSE:NYT) executive accused The Huffington Post of “copyright theft on numerous occasions.” (SAI)

Douglas A. McIntyre