<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071115/bs_afp/usbankingstockscompanynyseexecutivemerrilllynch">< img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20071115/capt.sge.uui56.151107050411.photo00.photo.default-347x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=KXijBUpwIV4Ns6ABuXbVYg--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Troubled Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch on Wednesday chose NYSE Euronext head John Thain, seen here in April 2007, as its new chief executive.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Troubled Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch on Wednesday chose John Thain, who forged the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext into the world's largest stock market operator, as its new chief executive and chairman.</p><br clear="all"/>

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(AFP)