Today's Best Market Rumors (11/4/2009) (JAVA)(ORCL)(TWX)

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Published: November 4, 2009 9:12 am

Last Updated: March 19, 2020 11:46 am

Updated throughout the day.

Updated 10.30 AM EST: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) believes that EU authorities may try to block its buy-out of Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) (FT)

Updated 10:26 AM EST: Apollo Management is buying debt swap instruments to increase is control of Harrah’s. (NYPost)

The CEOs of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) met pay czar Feinberg before he announced pay cut plans (Bloomberg)

Time Warner’s (NYSE:TWX) Time, Inc publishing division will lay off 500 people (various).

Senator Chris Dodd will propose merging all four bank regulatory agencies (various).

Cisco’s (NASDAQ:CSCO) earnings outlook is likely to be poor (TheStreet)

Warren Buffett may join Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) in bidding for Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) tax credits.

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