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Oct 26 2007 12:00am EDT

Wachovia: We Heard/Ignored You the First Time

Jenny Anderson and Landon Thomas Jr's NYT story on Merrill chief Stan O'Neal currently includes a nice Freudian typo.

"Jason Wright, a Merrill Lynch spokesman, said early today that there had been no contacts with any potential merger partners, but he declined to comment on whether there had been conversations with any banks. A Wachovia spokeswoman declined to comment. A Wachovia spokeswoman declined to comment."

That'll teach those flacks to stonewall.

Unintended repetitions aside, the story dominated the morning business news, and Jack Flack will come back to you shortly with the latest update on Stan O'Neal's acceleration down the "Five Levels of CEO Media Hell."


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