Media Digest 4/7/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   The Chinese hinted they were ready to let the yuan rise.

Reuters:   Asian stocks are near a 22 month high.

Reuters:   Regulators plan to track fast frequency trading.

Reuters:   FTC may block Google’s (GOOG) deal to buy mobile ad firm AdMob.

Reuters:   The Nikkei was helped by a sharp rose in bank shares.

Reuters:   Geithner said a yuan revaluation was China’s choice.

WSJ:   Goldman Sachs (GS) told its side of the credit crisis story in a letter to shareholders.

WSJ:   JPMorgan’s (JPM) Jamie Dimon is taking visible positions against bank regulation.

WSJ:   Renault and Nissan will work with Daimler on small cars.

WSJ:   A federal appeals court ruling caused problems with the FCC’s net neutrality plans.

WSJ:   Shopping center owners are still lowering rents.

WSJ:    Concerns about Greek debt are mounting again.

WSJ:   The Fed will keep rates low for an extended period.

WSJ:   Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and Xerox (XRX) are competing harder for consulting clients.

WSJ:   Verizon’s (VZ) CEO said he did not think his firm would merge with Vodafone (VOD).

WSJ:   CA (CA) will cut 1,000 jobs.

WSJ:   Moody’s may cut its rating on Iceland.

WSJ:   Monsanto is gambling that its technology will allow it to get higher prices.

WSJ:   Illiquid assets may hurt bank earnings.

WSJ:   GM’s slow decision-making process is frustrating its new CEO Ed Whitacre.

WSJ:   Toyota’s (TM) Prius is still the No.1 selling car in Japan.

WSJ:   Wal-Mart (WMT) is ramping up its online effort worldwide.

WSJ:   Rates that Greece has to pay for debt are rising sharply.

WSJ:   Macarthur Coal rejected Peabody’s new offer.

WSJ:   Visual artists will sue Google (GOOG) over its library digitization plans.

WSJ:   GM and Chrysler have $17 billion in underfunded pension liabilities.

WSJ:   California pensions are under-funded by a half a trillion dollars.

FT:   Facebook is blocking the sales of employee shares on secondary markets.

FT:   Copper prices are rising sharply.

Bloomberg:   China will sell three-year bills, a sign interest rates may rise.

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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