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Stock Tips Well my friends, the Masters saw this one coming. E.W. Scripps Company (SSP) got cold smoked last week after issuing lower guidance due to high costs in its internet division and unexpectedly poor performance in its newspapers. In the last month the stock has fallen 9.4%. This is exactly what we cautioned against back in October. They can’t all be Rachael Raywinners can they? But how about Food Network’s star Rachael Ray? She’s all over the place – Four Food Network programs, 16 best-selling cookbooks, she edits a monthly magazine published by Reader’s Digest, plastered her name on a line of cookware, knives & furniture, shills Nabisco crackers and was asked by NASA to create meals for astronauts. Can’t we just buy stock in her?

Stock Tips Our boy Todd Sullivan at Value Plays takes on AIG today and proves how they are not really improving. Todd said While AIG’s strategy of refusing to settle claims may have helped them last year, there is a growing bulge in future liabilities out there that will have to get paid. Investor’s beware…. Read his article at ValuePlays

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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