Media Digest 4/1/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, US car sales for March are likely to be off sharply.

Reuters writes that Microsoft (MSFT) will not raise its bid for Yahoo!  (YHOO)

Reuters reports that UBS (UBS) will take a write-down of $19 billion on U.S. real estate and related assets and have a large loss in Q1.

Reuters writes that Wal-Mart will offer its own private lable brand of coffee.

Reuters reprots that Lehman Brothers (LEH) will raise $3 million.

The Wall Street Jounal writes that the chairman of UBS will leave and the bank will raise  to $12 billion.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Deutsche Bank (DB) will write-off almost $4 billion

The Wall Street Journal writes that US farmer will plant less corn

The Wall Street Journal writes that Schering-Plough (SGP) and Merck (MRK) are defending the effectiveness of a cholesterol drug which the FDA panel says does not work well.

The Wall Street Journal says IBM (IBM) was suspended from new federal work.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the market in credit-default swap has gotten huge but is largely unregulated.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Dell (DELL) will close on of its large plants.

The New York Times writes that banks are trying to get courts to dismiss claims that they must fund a buy-out of Clear Channel (CCU).

The FT writes that hedge funds had one of their worst quarters ever.

Bloomberg writes that the NYC real-estate market is slowing due to trouble on Wall St.

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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