Media Digest 5/26/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, Asian economy’s may be severely damaged by rising oil and commodities prices.

Reuters writtes that European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet say that the markets are going through an ongoing correction.

Reuters reports that Warren Buffett believes that most of the current credit crisis was cause by bank mortgage lending practices.

Reuters reports that the CEO of Honda (HMC) is preparing for an assault on Toyota’s (TM) hybrid market share.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the bribe probe of Siemens (SI) could grow larger.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Paramount’s "Indian Jones" brought in $101 million over the weekend.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Beijing has put together a huge overhaul of the Chinese telecom industry.

The New York Times writes that Mozilla will soon release its Firefox 3.0 browser, a challenge to Microsoft’s (MSFT) Internet Explorer.

The New York Times writes that ad-supported cable networks are accelerating the rate at which they are taking market share from major networks.

The FT writes that macro hedge funds have had double-digit returns this year.

Bloomberg writes that one analysts says that Airbus, a division of EADS, has a valuation of "less than zero".

The Times of London writes that fuel suppliers are demanding that they are paid up-front by airlines.

The Telegraph writes that George Soros says that oil prices are being driven by speculators and that recent oil prices look like a bubble.

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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