Media Digest 8/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   A college education no longer means easy employment in China.

Reuters:   Fannie Mae (FNM) lost $14.8 billion.

Reuters:   The auto “clunkers” legislation passed the Senate.

Reuters:   Obama is in no rush to decide Bernanke’s appointment to a new term.

Reuters:   Private equity asked if it could relax FDIC rules.

Reuters:   Blackstone’s (BX) bankruptcy advisory business is growing quickly.

Reuters:   Hackers took down the Twitter site and slowed access to Facebook.

Reuters:   RBS (RBS) posted a first half loss and predicted two more hard years.

Reuters:   AIG (AIG) named the former head of American Express (AXP) as its chairman.

Reuters:   Citigroup (C) may give control to its Phibro group to the executive that it owes $100 million.

Reuters:   GM expects unit sales of 1.4 million in China this year.

WSJ:   The Credit Suisse (CS) plan to pay bankers with its own toxic assets is giving the employees good returns.

WSJ:   Private equity is slowly rebounding after two years.

WSJ:   The BOE is expanding its bond-buying plan.

WSJ:   Unilever’s plan to lower product prices helped improve earnings.

WSJ:   The loss at Sirius XM (SIRI) grew as subscribers fell.

WSJ:   Congress plans to spend $550 million on eight jets.

WSJ:   July hedge fund returns were strong.

WSJ:   A judge will force the SEC and Bank of America (BAC) to disclose details of a $33 million settlement.

WSJ:   Wells Fargo (WFC) is raising compensation for a number of workers.

WSJ:   Nasdaq and BATS will end “flash” orders.

WSJ:   Shares in Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) have done well but the mortgage market has not.

WSJ:   Buick will build bybrids to broaden its appeal.

WSJ:   Retailers expect poor back to school shopping.

WSJ:   CBS (CBS) provided better guidance.

WSJ:   China e-commerce site Alibaba will begin a push into the US.

WSJ:   Nvidia (NDVA) posted better-than-expected results.

NYT:   Credit checks are hurting the efforts of many to get new jobs.

NYT:   States are worried that the healthcare overhaul will hurt their finances.

NYT:   China may have to reign in bank lending.

NYT:   Ford (F) will replace or revamp a very large portion of its model line over the next three years.

NYT:   The FTC is working to cut oil price manipulation.

NYT:   Biogen (BIIB) says its partner Elan has violated their deal to share ownership of the drug Tysabri

FT:   Banks are still largely unwilling to increase the liquidity that they provide the market.

FT:   Morgan Stanley (MS) will pay $950 million for its TARP warrants.

FT:   Publicis is near buying Razorfish from Microsoft (MSFT).

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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