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Bank of America May Name Temporary CEO to Allow Board More Time for Search Bank of America Corp.’s board may
extend its search for a new, permanent chief executive officer
into 2010 if directors can’t settle on a candidate in the next
four days, according to people familiar with the matter.
Reliance Industries Makes Offer for Bankrupt LyondellBasell to Grow Abroad Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s
biggest company by market value, bid for bankrupt chemicals and
fuels maker LyondellBasell Industries AF, as it seeks to take
advantage of the global financial crisis to expand overseas.
Minsheng to Start Trading This Week as Sands China IPO Prices at Low End China Minsheng Banking Corp., the
nation’s first privately owned lender, will begin trading this
week in Hong Kong after raising HK$30.1 billion ($3.9 billion)
in the territory’s biggest public share sale since April 2007.
Senate Begins Debate Next Month on $848 Billion U.S. Health-Care Overhaul Democrats united to bring a sweeping
health-care plan to the U.S. Senate floor in a party-line vote
that kept Republicans from blocking debate on President Barack
Obama’s top domestic initiative.
Trial of Top Khmer Rouge Jailor Duch for Mass Cambodian Killings Will End The trial of the Khmer Rouge’s top
prison warden ends this week after six months of testimony about
the regime’s mass killings and brutality that brought Cambodians
face to face with the man who tortured them three decades ago.
Singh Calls on Pakistan to Bring Terrorists to Justice for Mumbai Attacks Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said Pakistan isn’t doing enough to prosecute terrorists who
killed 166 people in Mumbai a year ago, an attack that
interrupted peace talks between the nuclear-armed neighbors.