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• Wall St. Brings Its Misgivings to the World
  The daylong Seoul G-20 Business Summit led to an unusual juxtaposition of corporate and world leaders, with some businessmen expressing concern for criticism aimed at them.
  
  
• No Changes Now in Rules for Web Access in Europe
  New rules are not needed to keep the Continent’s telecommunications companies from selectively managing Internet access, Europe decides.
  
  
• DealBook: Exploring Lenovo's Pathway to the Future
  The computer maker has reminded investors that it is on the hunt for acquisitions, but some analysts are wondering how well-defined its strategy may be.
  
  
• Stocks and Bonds: Wall Street Falls After Cisco Trims Its Outlook
  A disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems rattled the market, as did a report that inflation rose in China in October at its fastest pace in more than two years.
  
  
• Obama’s Trade Strategy Runs Into Stiff Resistance
  The resistance to President Obama’s approach puts him at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners on fundamental issues of economic strategy.
  
  
• Europe Stands By to Steady Ireland
  The European Union stands ready to offer a financial lifeline to Ireland, an official said on Thursday, as bond investors apply pressure that threatens to derail Europe’s fragile economic recovery.
  
  
• Britain to Tape Traders’ Cell Phones to Fight Fraud
  New rules would oblige financial services firms to record relevant employee communications made on their work cell phones.
  
  
• Advertising: Selling Ford Around the World, From Detroit
  Toby Barlow, executive vice president and chief creative officer at Team Detroit, is assuming the new responsibilities of chief creative officer at Global Team Ford.
  
  
• BBC Journalists Call Off Strike
  The journalists’ union said the new talks were dependent on management’s dropping disciplinary action against three employees for a strike last week.
  
  
• Start-Ups Follow Twitter, and Become Neighbors
  Hoping some of Twitter’s success will rub off on them, start-ups jostle to rent offices in the same San Francisco building.
  
  
• Japan’s Farmers Oppose Pacific Free-Trade Talks
  The idea of a vast free-trade zone of Pacific countries pits Japan’s farmers, who benefit from tariffs, against the country’s exporters.
  
  
• High & Low Finance: Fed Efforts to Revive Economy Find Critics
  Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, may long for some of the praise that was once lavished on Alan Greenspan.
  
  
• Media Decoder: Tina Brown to Run Newsweek in Daily Beast Merger
  Tina Brown is to become Newsweek’s editor after a long and sometimes frustrating search by Sidney Harman.
  
  
• U.S. and South Korea Fail to Agree on Trade
  President Obama and South Korea’s leader gave negotiators more time to work out differences over Korean imports of American autos and beef.
  
  
• DealBook: Quants and Morgan Stanley to Part
  Morgan Stanley and the quant team led by Peter Muller are negotiating a spinoff, the latest retreat from proprietary trading by a Wall Street firm.
  
  
• Bucks: A Gift Card Guide for the Holidays
  Three ways recent regulations have changed gift card policies and three pitfalls consumers still need to watch out for.
  
  
• Wheels: General Electric to Place Big Order for Chevrolet Volt
  General Electric announced Thursday that it would buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015, including 12,000 from General Motors, starting with the Chevrolet Volt, which is a plug-in hybrid.
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Pogue's Posts: The Volt Recharges My Batteries
  David Pogue writes about his fascination with the Chevy Volt, a car aiming to be the electric car without the short range of electric cars.
  
  
• Bucks: MetLife to Stop Offering New Long-Term Care Policies
  MetLife plans to discontinue the sale of new long-term care insurance but intends to keep servicing existing policyholders.
  
  
• Economix: On Deficit Proposals, a Failure of Will and Not Ideas
  Blue-ribbon panel after blue-ribbon panel has advocated some variation of the same set of fiscal policy reform ideas. If there is so much wonkish agreement, why hasn’t anything changed?
  
  
• DealBook: Corporate Lawyers in the Cross Hairs
  As lawyers have gained prominence in corporate management, the likelihood of becoming the focus of an investigation -- and perhaps prosecution -- has grown.