Reuters: Pay czar Feinberg approved compensation at several bailed out firms.
Reuters: Oil moved above $77 as US crude stocks dropped.
Reuters: The US is probing some banks about their sale of risky securities.
Reuters: The Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) CEOs got their pay packages approved.
Reuters: US consumer spending rose by new home sales dropped.
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will host a new product event in January.
Reuters: AIG (NYSE:AIG) investigated some executives about their pay packages.
WSJ: AIG’s CEO is fighting a number of pay caps.
WSJ: Hyundai Motors will emerge as the big winner in US car sales this year.
WSJ: Ford (NYSE:F) settled the details of its sale of Volvo.
WSJ: The FTC is looking at how Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will use technology it will get when it buys AdMob.
WSJ: RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) is feeling the strain of outages of its BlackBerry network.
WSJ: Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) Nook e-readers will be delivered by Christmas.
WSJ: Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) finished repaying TARP funds.
WSJ: Novartis is making a push into heart transplant drugs.
NYT: Investigators are looking into whether Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) knowingly sold risky securities.
NYT: Government programs may push up the building of nuclear plants.
NYT: The recession has cut migration to the Sun Belt.
NYT: The CEO of Disney (NYSE:DIS) made 28% less than he did last year.
FT: The Italian tax amnesty raise 80 billion euros.
FT: Dealmaking income dropped to its lowest level since 2003.
FT: Investors tend to ignore the picks of securities analysts.
Bloomberg: Glencore is considering an IPO.
Bloomberg: A panel looking into the financial crisis will hear testimony from the heads of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS).
Douglas A. McIntyre
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