HEADLINES

AMERICAS:  U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Revised Down to 2.0% Growth

FIXED INCOME/CURRENCIES

AMERICAS:  RBC Head Residential Mortgage-Bond Trader Vaccaro Said to Depart

AMERICAS:  Guggenheim Hires Star Mountain’s Rinnovatore to Help ABS Growth

EQUITIES

AMERICAS:  U.S. Stocks Edge Higher as Oil Stabilizes

INVESTMENT BANKING/PRIVATE EQUITY

GLOBAL:  Goldman Sachs Names 3 to Management Committee

COMMODITIES

GLOBAL:  Oil Prices Recover Slightly from Record Low

HEDGE FUNDS/ASSET MANAGEMENT

AMERICAS:  Carlyle's Claren Road Hit with $950M in Q4 Redemption Requests

EMEA:  Barclays Inks Partnership with Ares, Sells £500M of U.K. Leveraged Loans

EMEA:  Brevan Howard Senior Trader Blandford Leaves Hedge-Fund Company

EMEA:  Gulati’s Argentiere Hedge Fund Hires Cobeljic as Money Manager

WEALTH MANAGEMENT/PRIVATE BANKING

AMERICAS:  Wells Fargo to Nudge Brokers to Get Bigger Clients