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Legg Mason (NYSE:LM): Current price $26.96

The asset manager Legg Mason could go private in the near term, if some sources are correct in their assertions that the firm has been approached in recent months by a number of its senior managers and private equity firms, with plans to take the struggling company private. However, its board has decided against looking into that option until the company has a new chief executive, according to the sources.

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