Media Digest 6/29/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT Bloomberg

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GReuters:   Thick oil hit the Mississippi coast as a large storm moved toward the Gulf.

Reuters:   BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) oil spill costs hit $100 million a day.

Reuters:   G20 leaders decided not to make positive comments about China’s move on the yuan.

Reuters:   G20 plans to reduce national deficits will not calm the markets.

Reuters:   G20 nations were split on what will help the recovery–stimulus or cuts.Reuters:   Gold has moved back toward a record high.

Reuters:   Senator Schumer urged the Fed to oversee bank fee charges.

Reuters:   Germany said Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) must improve data transparency.

Reuters:   Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) sued Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) over alleged patent violations

Reuters:   China’s Talkan Life Insurance said Goldman Sachs Group is close to buying its AXA stake.

WSJ:   G20 nations say they will cut national deficits in half by 2013.

WSJ:  The  financial overhaul bill may save homebuyers from predatory practices but may also limit their choices.

WSJ:   Q2 earnings may show that investors have become too bearish.

WSJ:   Germany’s external trade surplus is under attack.

WSJ:   The SEC lost two critical prosecutions, hurting its credibility.

WSJ:   UK banks are trying to lessen the impact of a new bank tax.

WSJ:   Chinese investors are moving into the US stock market.

WSJ:   Home Depot’s financial review could show if consumer spending has improved.

WSJ:   Pakistan will monitor Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) for anti-Islamic content.

WSJ:   BP said it captured 22,000 barrels of oil Saturday.  Relief wells, however, will not be finished until August.

WSJ:   “Toy Story 3” was the No.1 box office hit for the weekend.

NYT:   Banks avoided new global regulations at the G20.

NYT:  Obama is trying to expand broadband availability for commercial use.

FT:   State budgets could cause another fiscal crisis.

FT:   US corporate cash on balance sheets hit a record.

Bloomberg:   US companies are getting better productivity by using temp workers who have become unemployed.

Bloomberg;   The value of BP losses in the Gulf includes $22 billion from stock buybacks that went sour as the value of its shares plunge.

Bloomberg:    The components of the new iPhone cost $188 according to iSuppli.

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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