Media Digest (10/23/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Media

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: October 23, 2009 3:57 am

Last Updated: April 28, 2020 1:12 am

newspaper Reuters: Japan Airlines faces $8.8 billion in excess debt if liquidated.

Reuters: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) beat Wall St. estimates.

Reuters: GM’s CEO will get a pay raise.

Reuters: Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) over patent infringement.

Reuters: Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) hit back at compensation cuts by the pay czar.

Reuters: American Express (NYSE:AXP) numbers beat forecasts.

Reuters: CIT (NYSE:CIT) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) reached an agreement over a large CIT dividend payment.

Reuters: Booksellers are asking the Justice Department to look into the price wars among online sellers including Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), and Target (NYSE:TGT).

WSJ: The Fed hit banks with sweeping pay limits.

WSJ: Calpers is reviewing its ties with Apollo Management.

WSJ: AT&T (NYSE:T) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) are battling over net neutrality rules.

WSJ: Online premium video site Hulu will start to charge for content.

WSJ: Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) picked at insider to be its next CEO

WSJ: Ballmer, which has presided over tough times at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), gets to have some pleasure in good reviews of Windows 7.

WSJ: The federal home buyer credit is drawing tax cheats.

WSJ: Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS) posted an impressive profit.

WSJ: Dole Foods IPO was priced at $12.50.

WSJ: There will be several Treasury auctions next week.

WSJ: Chrysler’s board is pushing back against its new CEO, the head of Fiat.

WSJ: Fortune Magazine will publish 18 times a year instead of 25.

WSJ: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) expects strong sales gains next year.

NYT: The Fed plans to discourage risky pay packages.

NYT: A key Obama adviser said unemployment would go above 10% and the recovery would remain slow.

NYT; A House committee cleared the way for an agency that would monitor consumer lenders for abuse.

NYT: Russia dropped a $22 billion suit against The Bank of New York.

Bloomberg: The Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) is looking for more funds to expand in Macau.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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