Today's Best Market Rumors (1/15/2010) (MOT)(UBS)(CS)

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Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: January 15, 2010 8:35 am

Last Updated: January 17, 2010 9:51 pm

Updated throughout the day.

Updated 1.14 PM EST Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) may have hired a banker to put itself on the block (Barron’s)

Updated 1.14 PM Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) may fire 50% of the workforce at Sun.

Wall St. bankers made $145 billion last year (WSJ)

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) no longer plans to break itself up (WSJ)

MGM plans to move ahead with an IPO of its Macau operations. (NYTimes)

Citigroup (NYSE:C) plans to cap bonuses at $100,000. (FT)

Hershey (NYSE:HSY) is pressing its bid to make an offer for Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) (Bloomberg)

UBS (NYSE:UBS), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), and Julius Baer may have lost almost $18 billion due to an Italian tax amnesty (Morgan Stanley)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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