Media Digest (11/1/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Regulators could fine Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) $470 million for manipulating California’s energy market, according to an investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Reuters)

Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) says it had a small profit in its fiscal second quarter and affirmed its full-year numbers. (Reuters)

Shale oil could bring down overall oil costs in the United States sharply by 2020. (Reuters)

Sharp says its annual loss will be more than expected. (Reuters)

Earnings at airlines and hotels will continue to be hurt by Hurricane Sandy. (Reuters)

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) sues the supervisor of the “London whale” who lost the firm $6 billion. (WSJ)

Carl Icahn takes a 10% position in Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX). (WSJ)

The pressure for Greece to accept more austerity cuts ramps up. (WSJ)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) and Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) set plans to sell customers goods needed due to Hurricane Sandy. (WSJ)

Mortgage requests rise, but banks remain wary of making home loans. (WSJ)

The National Labor Relations Board reports declining union strength in some industries and regions in which organized labor has been strong. (WSJ)

Senior U.K. officials are at odds with one another about budget cuts in Europe. (WSJ)

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) delays plans to drill in the Arctic until next year. (WSJ)

The BBC may face civil liability in the Jimmy Savile case. (WSJ)

Deutsche Lufthansa and Air France-KLM each report good earnings. (WSJ)

Asian interests help General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) earnings results. (WSJ)

LivingSocial’s value drops sharply, along with that of its larger rival Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN). (WSJ)

The firing of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Scott Forstall may change how the company presents software. (NYT)

New numbers forecast that Greece’s debt-to-GDP could rise to an unexpected 192% in 2012. (FT)

Bank of England Deputy Governor Charles Bean says a failing economy could hurt easing. (Bloomberg)

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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