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Banks Win Court Bar to Instant Theflyonthewall.com Stock Analysis Reports Theflyonthewall.com, the online financial news service, was barred from issuing immediate online reports about stock upgrades and downgrades of Barclays Plc, Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.

General Growth's New Offer Would Give It $6 Billion in Cash, Lawyer Says General Growth Properties Inc. will submit by next week a new proposal to reorganize its holding company that would give it more than $6 billion in cash and another $250 million to back a rights offering. It also won permission to reorganize five property-owning units.

Astrazeneca Wins Trial on Claim Antipsychotic Seroquel Caused Diabetes AstraZeneca Plc officials properly warned a Vietnam veteran’s doctors about the diabetes risk posed by its Seroquel antipsychotic drug, a jury ruled in the first case over the medicine to go to trial.

Lehman to Seek $11 Billion From Barclays, Including $5 Billion `Windfall' Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the investment bank liquidating in bankruptcy, said it was seeking a total of $11 billion from Barclays Plc, including a $5 billion “windfall” allegedly gained by the U.K. bank when it bought Lehman’s North American brokerage.

Nemazee, Democratic Fundraiser, Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Banks Hassan Nemazee, a top political fundraiser for U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, admitted he defrauded banks of millions of dollars.

Viacom Asks Federal Court to Rule Google's YouTube Violates Copyrights Viacom Inc. asked a federal court in New York to rule that Google Inc.’s YouTube video-sharing Web site violates its copyrights, according to documents unsealed today.

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