A man pulls up his pants in front of a shop sign advertising discounted trousers in central Sydney, November 20, 2008. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will name New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner as his Treasury Secretary, major media reported on Friday, sparking a late-day stock market rally and helping assuage concerns about a power vacuum in Washington.

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