Media Digest 6/2/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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According to Reuters, the head of Harris Bank said the company was not for sale.

Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) will cut its sales forecasts for the US.

Reuters reports that Nomura will enter the US mutual fund market.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Americans in need of cash are turning to risky ways of getting it as the recession deepens.

The Wall Street Journal writes that delays in delivery from planes from Boeing (BA) and Airbus is making its easier for airlines to keep capacity low and to raise fares.

The Wall Street Journal writes that rising energy costs may keep corporate earnings from turning around.

The Wall Street Journal reports that chip makers like Nvidia (NVDA) are making more products for mobile devices.

The Wall Street Journal writes that GM’s (GM) domestic market share may fall below 20%.

The New York Times writes that Paulson sees not quick fix for high oil prices.

The FT writes that international regulators are working on plans that would make it more expensive for banks to hold complex securites like mortgage-backed paper.

Bloomberg writest that hedge funds are cutting their bets that oil will go higher.

Bloomberg writes that companies like GM (GM), Motorola (MOT), and The New York Times (NYT) are eating up their cash by paying dividends.

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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