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Today’s Best Market Rumors

February 17, 2010 at 8:54 am

Updated throughout the day.

HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was involved in a criminal tax evasion case involving a wealthy US investor. (NYT)

Shares in Man Group are higher on word that Blackrock (NYSE:BLK) may buy the company. (Reuters)

The EU may seize the tax and spending policies of the Greek government if it does not come up with viable solutions to it debt and deficit problems (The Telegraph)

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) are prepared to fight an Obama plan to tax offshore profits (Bloomberg)

Margins for the Microsoft Office unit could be hurt by its battle against Google business apps software (BusinessWeek)

Douglas A. McIntyre