Media Digest 6/8/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Bernanke said Europe is committed to keeping the  euro as currency.

Reuters:   Congress has begun the final stage of financial reform legislation.

Reuters:   Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the new iPhone.

Reuters:   Foxconn confirmed that it increased wages for factory workers.Reuters:   China said it would continue with a government-regulated Internet.

Reuters:   Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) will begin hiring new employees in its brokerage unit.

WSJ:   The FDIC said Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) was resisting compliance with the agency’s requests.

WSJ:   Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) was hit by another strike in China.

WSJ:   Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) will pay $108 million to settle an FTC suit over actions by Countrywide.

WSJ:   The details of Europe’s financial rescue package have been set.

WSJ:   Marsh & McClennan sold Knoll.

WSJ:   Apple will push its new mobile ad unit to begin aggressively marketing its services.

WSJ:   Obama will allow shallow water drilling.

WSJ:   Walgreen cut its ties with the CVS Caremark drug plan.

WSJ:   Boeing (NYSE: BA) will bid on a new Italian helicopter.

WSJ:   AT&T (NYSE: T) denied it was in talks with Reliance to buy a stake in the Indian company.

WSJ:   Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) will roll out 60 new products.

WSJ:   Chrysler recalled 600,000 vehicles.

WSJ:   The Toys ‘R’ Us IPO will help determine how well KKR gets returns for its investors.

WSJ:   The Agricultural Bank of China will keep its current IPO terms.

WSJ:   Treasury will sell $82 billion in short-term debt.

NYT:   The success of the BP plc (NYSE: BP) oil cap is nearly impossible to assess.

NYT:   As wages rise in China, so will the cost of its exports.

FT:   The executive in charge of the BP clean up says the US government has been slow to help.

FT:   Merkel is pushing 80 billion in budget cuts and the layoffs of 15,000 government workers.

FT:   The management of British Air says it will “wait out” strikers.

FT:   Prudential plc said it would watch AIA which may mean it will make another bid for the American International Group (NYSE: AIG) unit.

Bloomberg:   Bernanke says jobless rate is unlikely to fall quickly.

Bloomberg:   A leading Chinese government researcher says China’s growth may drop below 11%.

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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