Media Digest 11/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   China’s economy may be hurt as its stimulus ends.

Reuters:   Warren Buffett says the financial panic is over.

Reuters:   Former bankers are considering buying failed banks.

Reuters:   The SEC is expected to go ahead with the Bear Stearns case.

Reuters:   British Airways and Iberia will merge in a $7 billion deal.

Reuters:   Disney (NYSE:DIS) revenue and profit beat Wall St. estimates.

Reuters:   Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) will pay AMD (NYSE:AMD) $1.25 billion to settle antitrust suits.

Reuters:   Blockbuster’s (NYSE:BBI) loss grew as sales dropped.

Reuters:   A broad appeal is fueling buying in China’s Nasdaq-like market.

Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) is looking for deals beyond 3Com (NYSE:COM).

Reuters:   US airlines are asking the Administration not to re-regulate the industry.

WSJ:   Boeing (NYSE:BA) found another production problem with its Dreamliner 787.

WSJ:   FHA financial reserves fell below the Congressional mandated limit.

WSJ:   A panel of economists expect a rate increase near the mid-term elections.

WSJ:   Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) says it expects a tough holiday season.

WSJ:   Mercedes plans a number of small cars.

WSJ:   Ex-bankers are forming blind pools to bid for failed banks putting them in competition with other banks and private equity.

WSJ:   The Fed put curbs on overdraft fees.

WSJ:   The FDIC is moving to put the final touches on a plan to raise $45 billion from member banks.

WSJ:   Builders are creating smaller “dream homes”.

WSJ:   Nearly 22 million American have contracted the swine flu.

WSJ:   China’s sovereign funds is looking for someone with US experience to run its hedge fund.

WSJ:   The Treasury will sell $88 billion in short-term securities next week.

WSJ:   The Fed may be faced with the problem of cutting its stimulus program causing the US economy to falter.

WSJ:   McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) will invest in more restaurants as it prepares for the recovery.

NYT:   FHA reserves have fallen sharply.

NYT:   GM is trying to get rid of the bureaucracy that helped bring it down.

NYT:   Nintendo is predicting a strong holiday season.

FT:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is working on getting more deeply into internet communications such as voice calls and instant messaging and video.

Bloomberg:   The German economy rose .7% in the third quarter.

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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