GM turned down Chrysler merger because market dropped, merger costs, public funding might have been available
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Nardelli - defending Cerbeus interest in Chrysler
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Chrysler CEO Nardelli - private equity is not a few rich guys taking over a company
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GM Stock Declining To Session Lows During Senate Bailout Hearing
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Canada's New Toyota Plant Will Create 1200 Auto Jobs
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Shumer-Congress Realizes Letting Big 3 Fail 'Catastrophic"
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Chrysler Needs $4 bln To Get Through March 31-CEO Nardelli
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Big 3 All Support Oversight Board In Loan Program
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March 31 Can Be a Deadline for Showing Progress with Bailout Money--Nardelli
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Fed Expected To Reject Auto Bailout-WSJ
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GM head - significant amount of CDS written against GM paper that would be triggered should GM declare bankruptcy
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Nardelli - talking balance sheet concesssions in effort to get "bridge loan"
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Redbook SSI Index - only positive gains - Discount Stores up 0.2% in November
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Redbook details - Apparel index down 9% in Nov, Department Stores down 13.6%
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Redbook SSI - 22.5% retailers posted positive comps, 72.5% posted Negative Comps
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Citadel Lost 13% in November, 47% YTD --WSJ
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Crude Falls Below $44 Handle
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Freddie: US 1yr TSY-Indexed Hybrid ARMs Averaged 5.02% Last Week (5.18% Prior)
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Freddie: US 5yr TSY-Indexed Hybrid ARMs Averaged 5.77% Last Week (5.86% Prior)
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US 15yr Mortgage Rates Edge Up to 5.33% from 5.74% Last Week --Freddie
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Buoyed by outsized returns and driven by an influx of hedge funds, equity market trading volumes surged throughout Asia in 2006, and institutional investors remain bullish about the region's prospects for the coming year, according to a report from consultants Greenwich Associates.

Hedge funds send Asian equity trading volumes soaring, says report

The firm's 2006 Asian Equity Investors Study reveals that the volume of equity commissions paid by institutions based in Asia to brokers on trades of Asian (ex-Japan) shares rose by around one-third last year, from USD900m in 2005 to USD1.2bn. Equity commission rates remained largely unchanged for the market as a whole, the report says, although the region's largest and most active traders managed to squeeze their average commission rates lower.

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