Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=merLatest Financial News for ML CO CMN STKen-usWed, 23 Dec 2009 15:46:41 Etc/GMThttp://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40197.gifhttp://finance.yahoo.com14417http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/video/forbes/rss/SIG=110egdsat/*http%3A//www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/business/when-the-fed-will-raise-rates&partner=yahootixyahoo_finance/191309213Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:46:41 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125ta1b5t/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/c7042b0e-ef12-11de-92d8-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Who should come first in a business: customers, shareholders or staff? This question is the corporate version of the parlour game I outlined last week concerning power, money and reputation - who wins the triangular struggle for priority?yahoo_finance/3927946276Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:40:26 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125fu6pb5/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/f245e664-eb1f-11de-a0e1-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058One person's influence at the top of large organisations is overestimated. It is hard to transform a company with hundreds of thousands of people. External forces, such as economic malaise or industry upheaval, are stronger.yahoo_finance/1221799772Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:25:18 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1253i6nue/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/8010c2f4-e902-11de-a756-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058In the wake of the financial crisis, private banks across the world are scrambling to regain the trust of the wealthy. In Asia-Pacific, the task is particularly urgent.yahoo_finance/1463119080Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:40:15 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125shhkv4/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/854c4e32-e902-11de-a756-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058China's spectacular economic rise has created some 500,000 US dollar millionaires in a couple of short decades - and almost every one of them has a rags-to-riches story to tell.yahoo_finance/3383207108Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:40:15 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1256121m9/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/85ab1a06-e8ef-11de-a756-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Haymarket Financial, a new lending group backed by the private equity group TowerBrook Capital Partners, has launched with $700m in permanent capital, in a sign of investors looking to take advantage of the gap in the availability of corporate credit.yahoo_finance/521098204Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:45:20 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125o0hoq9/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/83806e16-e2a5-11de-b028-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058When Alistair Darling stands up to deliver his pre-Budget report on Wednesday, bankers across the country will be listening more carefully than ever, as they are likely to be the target of some of the chancellor's most headline-grabbing proposals.yahoo_finance/2170766703Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:40:24 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1250qkj9t/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/9d3ce434-e029-11de-8494-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058A senior Chinese official who oversees the country's largest state-owned enterprises has publicly slammed western investment banks for "maliciously" peddling complicated derivative products that caused huge losses for Chinese companies over the last year.yahoo_finance/4037474496Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:10:15 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125rlk8ji/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/2a98b84e-d869-11de-b63a-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Let us now praise Goldman Sachs , for the sole reason that it and it alone among the major, capital-intensive Wall Street institutions - both recently deceased and still living - actually understands something about risk and risk-taking.yahoo_finance/321835098Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:55:35 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1251n7t73/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/b13f007c-d604-11de-b80f-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Market fears that a "bubble" is developing in global equity markets are totally misguided, says Burkhard Varnholt, chief investment officer of Sarasin, who is betting that stocks have another 20 to 30 per cent to rise.yahoo_finance/1196820290Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:30:27 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=12512dt71/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/93fbcc6e-d467-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058One does not have to venture off the beaten track to discover why south-east Asia's biggest economy is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.yahoo_finance/1124022501Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:20:38 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125it3e0l/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/3b5add88-d242-11de-a0f0-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Altium Capital has held tentative discussions with overseas investors potentially interested in buying all or part of one of London's few remaining privately-owned stockbrokers.yahoo_finance/3858113621Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:35:17 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1258atlkb/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/354c5d5c-cd8f-11de-8162-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058To say the past 12 months have formed a difficult period for the private banking industry is to put it rather mildly. Amid the fall-out from the worst financial crisis in several generations, assets under management have suffered a massive devaluation.yahoo_finance/1315515464Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:20 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1258bn6p0/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/31fef948-cd8f-11de-8162-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058The scramble to attract and retain the private banking business of the world's wealthiest families has become that much more competitive amid the fall-out from the worst financial crisis in several generations.yahoo_finance/2785765596Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:19 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/video/forbes/rss/SIG=110egdsat/*http%3A//www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/ini/dark-pools-simplified&partner=yahootixyahoo_finance/941940910Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:27:36 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=125tiiv4g/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/c379bee8-ca43-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058ITVon Thursday reported its first growth for a year and projected its best advertising figures since 2007. However, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster demurred from calling the bottom of the advertising market in spite of hints that there may be better news to come in the festive period.yahoo_finance/3196217160Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:40:24 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/091103/as_philippines_earns_pldt.html?.v=1Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the country's biggest telecommunications company, said third quarter profit rose 49 percent, buoyed by earnings from its stake in a power company.yahoo_finance/2748957904Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:09:26 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1256s6tob/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/6ead4670-c32a-11de-8eca-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058Two former British investment bankers are set to share about $60m after selling ScanSafe, the internet security company they set up five years ago, to Cisco Systems for up to $183m.yahoo_finance/2881824800Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:45:31 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/ft/rss/SIG=1258d0hhh/*http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/892320e6-c2a9-11de-be3a-00144feab49a.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058UBS on Tuesday named Robert "Bob" McCann, the former head of Merrill Lynch's "thundering herd" of financial advisers, as the new chief executive of its wealth management operations in the Americas.yahoo_finance/2539110042Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:45:31 Etc/GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/cnbc/rss/SIG=11h4fk92v/*http%3A//www.cnbc.com/id/33488010/site/14081545?__source=yahoo%7Cheadline%7Cquote%7Ctext%7C&par=yahooyahoo_finance/266012492Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:28:44 Etc/GMT