Media Digest 3/5/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   China said nothing about the US delay of currency manipulations charges.

Reuters:   Office vacancy rates hit a 16-year high.

Reuters:   CEO pay is down from last year and Ellison of Oracle (ORCL) was No.1 on lists of the best-paid executives.

WSJ:  Fed officials are in a pitched debate about inflation and the agency’s actions.

WSJ:   Few stores sold out the Apple (AAPL) iPad.

WSJ:   Landlords continued to cut rental rates but the amount of the cuts in Q1 slowed.

WSJ:   The Energy Department discovered that it overestimated stocks of natural gas.

WSJ:   Bond buyers are accepting more risk.

WSJ:   Movie ticket sales hit a record for the weekend.

WSJ:   Larry Summers predicted more job growth.

WSJ:   Five of the 13 IPOs in March were tech companies and more are likely in the months ahead.

WSJ:   Some publishers are working on ways to sell their products outside of the Apple (AAPL) iTunes store.

WSJ:   Playboy’s (PLA) licencing revenue is slowing.

WSJ:   Prosecutors are unlikely to bring charges against AIG (AIG) executives involved in investments that collapsed the company.

WSJ:   More SEC lawyers are leaving to make money fighting the agency.

WSJ:   Treasury yields will probably be much higher by the end of the year.

WSJ:   Full-sized pick-up trucks outperformed other vehicles.

WSJ:   HTC says its smartphone market share in the US is better than rivals.

NYT:   Greenspan is more confident about the recovery.

FT:   The commission set up to probe questions about the US financial crisis will question former Treasury chief Robert Rubin, former Citigroup (C) CEO Chuck Prince, and Alan Greenspan.

FT:   US banks earned $2.5 billion booking improvement in bonds which they purchased at discounts.

FT:   Macroeconomic hedge funds have done poorly this year.

Bloomberg:   Geithner is delaying labeling China a currency manipulator to give the People’s Republic time to adjust the value of the yuan.

Bloomberg:   Companies that buy back stock perform better in the market than rivals, which may cause an increase in share buyback programs.

Douglas A. McIntyre