Media Digest 5/23/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, Ford (F) has given up on its plan to make a profit in 2009.

Reuters reprots that Yahoo! (YHOO) nominated its board and delayed its annual meeting.

Reuters writes that Merrill Lynch (MER) has set up a group to sell bad assets.

Reuters reports that home price dropped and jobless rates hit a four-year high.

Reuters reports that Gap (GPS) earnings rose 40%.

Reuters reports that McDonald’s (MCD) will absorb some of its food commodities costs instead of passing them on to customers.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the oil industry will try to do more drilling on land currently protected by the government.

The Wall Street Journal reports that China PC sales lifted PC company Lenovo results

The Wall Street Journal writes that rising oil prices could hurt corporate profits in the second half.

The Wall Street Journal writes that oil found off the coast of Brazil may make it a major oil exporter.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Time Warner (TWX) has emerged as one of the leading bidders for The Weather Channel.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the CEO of Sony (SNE) told his managers to "get mad" in a bid to return the company’s lead in consumer electronics.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Moody’s moved analysts off rating some investment banks when the firms requested a change.

The New York Times writes that the strike at American Axle is coming to an end.

The New York Times writes that S&P may downgrade its ratings on nine airlines.

The FT reports that some Asian countries will cut oil subsidies to protect profits of state-owned companies.

The FT writes that Pimco is taking on huge amounts of mortgage debt.

Bloomberg writest that part of the upward pressure on oil was caused by traders covering bets that crude would fall.

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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