Bloomberg.com Exclusive News http://www.bloomberg.com Bloomberg LP en-us Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that confidence in the dollar isn’t under threat and his main challenge for now is fighting the danger of asset bubbles in emerging markets. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aq1tyLUQpWvI&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aq1tyLUQpWvI Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:37:21 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp.’s board may extend its search for a permanent new chief executive officer into 2010 if directors can’t settle on a candidate in the next three days, according to people familiar with the matter. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a6QPGsB3_1UM&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a6QPGsB3_1UM Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:43:58 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Billionaire Oleg Deripaska, whose United Co. Rusal is seeking to restructure more than $14 billion of debt, is in talks with potential investors in his construction, airport and financial-services businesses. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=acitSWnp8ciE&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=acitSWnp8ciE Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:40:38 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Zynga Inc., maker of the “Mafia Wars” and “FarmVille” games played on Facebook, may be valued at $1 billion based on the sale price of a smaller rival. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aK27lRYbSPqU&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aK27lRYbSPqU Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:39:29 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign fund took tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients his office investigated or accused of wrongdoing, state records show. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=an4BeuclMV_4&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=an4BeuclMV_4 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:23 EST Financial News Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Danielle Chiesi spent a lot of time in hotel ballrooms and bars during the past decade. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=apTuckYhnYYU&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=apTuckYhnYYU Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:01:00 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Taliban fleeing a Pakistani offensive are regrouping in the country’s northwest, threatening to spread and prolong a conflict that has strained the nation’s economy and may hamper efforts to attract foreign investment. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a3dxxpUCS8.M&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a3dxxpUCS8.M Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:45:01 EST Financial News Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- A year ago, as Britain’s property market began to collapse, housebuilder Persimmon Plc owed 960 million pounds ($1.6 billion). Today, Chief Financial Officer Michael Killoran has slashed that debt by 58 percent. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aRwyaPfr.JAo&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aRwyaPfr.JAo Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:23 EST Financial News Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- China is risking a Japan-style bubble unless the country’s regulators start to rein a record lending boom, BNP Paribas said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGzOVBEvgfWU&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aGzOVBEvgfWU Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:29:47 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Playboy Enterprises Inc. needs to make strategic decisions to expand the men’s magazine publisher in the coming decade, according to former Chief Executive Officer Christie Hefner. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=akb.kWSBiyfY&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=akb.kWSBiyfY Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:09 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- As Sony Corp.’s e-book devices vie with the Kindle to win over readers, the real showdown may come later: when a shift to electronic textbooks at schools threatens to eclipse the current market for the products. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aLG2zY6jsTLk&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aLG2zY6jsTLk Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:00 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are pursuing readers from regional U.S. newspapers in their fight to survive the worst advertising declines in the industry’s history. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ahHWzESiwGRg&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ahHWzESiwGRg Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:56 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Roger Carr, Cadbury Plc’s chairman, once thwarted Goldman Sachs Group Inc., then led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, from bidding for pub chain Mitchells & Butlers Plc in 2006. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ajjibKgNtE.I&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ajjibKgNtE.I Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:53:25 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Foster’s Group Ltd., Australia’s biggest brewer, never borrowed from China until this year, when Bank of China Ltd. helped arrange $500 million in loans to refinance debt. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a4iYO7Ud35LA&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a4iYO7Ud35LA Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:42:08 EST Financial News Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- In a cavernous hall in northeast Lithuania, workers tear apart the first of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant’s four two-story turbines. The growing piles of steel parts, tubes and cowlings will soon fill nearby storage buildings the size of aircraft hangars. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=amNmBmMITpQ0&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=amNmBmMITpQ0 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:01 EST Financial News Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, the former investment banker who helped the country avert the worst of the financial crisis, says Canada’s experience provides lessons for the world. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQcJ7bw4QH.Y&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aQcJ7bw4QH.Y Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 EST Financial News Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Meredith Whitney, the analyst who cut her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last month, said the bank has lost some of its top-performing employees as executives left to start their own investment companies. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a3MG10bCk2OE&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a3MG10bCk2OE Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:58:25 EST Financial News Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- DirecTV Group Inc. Chairman John Malone won’t rule out a possible takeover by AT&T Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc., saying they will likely have closer ties to his company as they develop packages of phone and television service. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aTzNHwG_3pcE&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aTzNHwG_3pcE Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:23:25 EST Financial News Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The price of Facebook Inc. stock on exchanges for private companies has jumped as much as 42 percent in the past four months as membership of the site topped 300 million users and the company turned cash flow positive. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a8WKOckNML3k&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a8WKOckNML3k Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST Financial News Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- AOL, the Internet unit being spun off from Time Warner Inc. in December, plans to cut about one- third of its workforce over the next several months. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=az3GqHUSJMvg&refer=exclusive http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=az3GqHUSJMvg Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:22 EST