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Media Digest 2/26/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Akio Toyoda met with Transportation Secretary LaHood.

Reuters:   Lloyds posted huge loss driven by bad debts.

Reuters:   A job creation effort is hung up in Congress again.

Reuters:   Blackstone (BSX) got commitments for its fund in China.

Reuters:   Toyota (TM)  will miss its North American output goal.

WSJ:   Hedge funds are making large bets against the euro.

WSJ:   Greece will delay its bond sale.

WSJ:   AIG (AIG) has decided not to use $9.5 billion in new capital to pay back taxpayers.

WSJ:   The Fed has gained ground in the Senate and may end up as the primary regulator of US banks.

WSJ:   Apple (AAPL) defended it huge cash balance.

NYT:   One of four US workers are at companies with government contracts, which may be a way to improve the financial situation of those people.

NYT:   The Fed is looking at the role of Goldman Sachs (GS) in a derivative program used by Greece to hide financial deficits.

NYT:   The US is looking requiring lenders to review mortgage changes before foreclosing on homes.

NYT:   Walmart (WMT) has a plan to make its supply chain more environmentally friendly.

FT:   The US healthcare summit made little progress.

FT:   A shortage of workers is hurting China’s export recovery.

FT:   Greece’s deficit is rasing concerns about red ink in US states.

FT:   Google (GOOG) is fighting back over claims that its algorithm does not product fair results.

Bloomberg:   The economy of Europe may “decouple” from the global recovery.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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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