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...Fiat cruises into the ownership roundabout, Daimler is clearly looking for the exit. The German automaker owns a 19.9% stake in Chrysler but wrote down the value of the shares to zero last autumn (how's that for pessimism). Negotiations begun by Cerberus back in September to purchase Daimler's stake broke down. However, Daimler could transfer the Chrysler shares to Fiat for non-cash consideration such as patents or technology. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
Earlier in the day, Bloomberg News reported that the SEC had begun a routine investigation into Apple's disclosure's about Jobs's health. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg has also claimed that Jobs "is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment of cancer." Apple has declined to comment...
...Rule of Law Institute, a human-rights group, and had made many enemies over his career - from Chechen warlords and the Russian military to neo-fascists and nationalist organizations. He had worked closely with Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya before she was murdered in 2006 and had recently begun to look into the circumstances behind the November attack on journalist Mikhail Beketov, a beating that left Beketov in a coma for two weeks and resulted in the amputation of a leg and some fingers...
...arguments that economists and government officials have begun to make is that whatever is being done to change the course of the downturn is being done too slowly, putting off well into the future the time when any recovery begins...
...viewpoints from the U.S. poll and the U.K. economists are two sides of one coin. People need to brace themselves for a long and painful period, and to some extent that process has begun...