Media Digest 11/16/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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newspaperReuters:   The Ohio Attorney General is suing a number of Wall St. firms.

Reuters:   GM will start to repay part of its debt to the US.

Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) will sell Bellsystem to Bain.

Reuters:   Japan’s GDP numbers were leaked.

Reuters:   Japan’s growth is still modest and the government may have a second stimulus.

Reuters:   Fed’s Hoenig sees great weakness in the economy.

Reuters:   The IMF called for a rise in the yuan.

Reuters:   Hitachi will raise $4.6 billion.

Reuters:   BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) says central banks will be net buyers of gold.

Reuters:   Champion will put its US operations into Chapter 11.

WSJ:   GE (NYSE:GE) is trying to get a huge part of government stimulus spending.

WSJ:   The rate of bankruptcies is slowing.

WSJ:   US earnings are strong but corporate revenue is not.

WSJ:   Bristol-Myers (NYSE:BMY) will spin-off its Mead division.

WSJ:   Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) settlement with book publishers is unlikely to end the matter.

WSJ:   The Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) deal with GE (NYSE:GE) to control NBCU will face regulatory review.

WSJ:   Auto makers are still cutting capacity and costs.

WSJ:   Companies are raising debt even when they do not need that cash.

WSJ:   India will increase funding for solar power.

WSJ:   The bond market is likely to suffer a long, slow sell-off.

WSJ:   S&P is starting to take a more negative view of banks which have federal help.

WSJ:   A Comcast deal for NBCU could speed development of “addressable” advertising and interactive TV.

WSJ:   The Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS) is focusing on its Macau business.

NYT:   Drug makers are trying to raise prices before government regulations take effect.

NYT:   Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) faces the prospects that it will never be a success.

NYT:   Newsweek, a part of The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) is starting to show financial improvement.

NYT:   About half of US online readers would pay for content.

NYT:   Data shows that electic patient record have not improved care or cut costs.

FT:   As the dollar dropped, gold hit a record.

FT:   The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said food prices could spike with the end of the recession.

Bloomberg:   UBS (NYSE:UBS) debt trading operations are the key to its profitability.

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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