Media Digest 4/2/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   US Census hiring will life payrolls.

Reuters:   The US will impose new airport security measures.

Reuters:   The head of China will visit the US and the issue of the yuan  may be resolved.

Reuters:   Discounts drove auto sales higher.

Reuters:   AIG said it is on track to repay the US by 2013.

Reuters:   A Fed official said it was too early to raise rates.

Reuters:   Factory and jobs data showed the economy is moving higher.

WSJ:   The Illinois gaming commission will look at MGM Mirage’s(MGM) ties in China.

WSJ:   Prescription drug sales rose 5% in last year.

WSJ:   Fixed mortgage rates jumped.

WSJ:   Burkle pressured Barnes & Noble (BKS) to buy more shares.

WSJ:   Amazon (AMZN) may be helped by selling e-books for the Apple (AAPL) iPad.

WSJ:   Long-term unemployment could cloud the jobs picture.

WSJ:   The Primerica IPO moved up 31%.

WSJ:   The Treasury will make $165 billion in bond sales next week.

WSJ:   The White House set rules for car fuel efficiency, but hybrid growth will only solve part of the problem.

WSJ:   Toyota (TM) sales rose 51% in Japan.

NYT:   Creditors are suing Americans by the millions.

NYT:   Personal bankruptcies were up sharply in March.

NYT:   ABC and CBS (CBS) had sharp declines in viewership for their nightly news cast, the Olympics helped NBC.

FT:   Global manufacturing is speeding the recovery.

FT:   Daimler paid $185 million to settle bribery charges.

FT:   Morgan Stanley (MS) was hit by a big loss at a casino property.

Bloomberg:   Toyota’s (TM) Lexus brand kept its lead in the US luxury can market.

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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