Media Digest (9/15/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Reuters:   Japan intervened to cap the yen for the first time in six years.

Reuters:   Business sentiment in Asia slipped for the third quarter period.

Reuters:   Gold remained near a record high.

Reuters:   A bill to help small businesses moved forward in the Senate.

Reuters:   Dell Inc.  (NASDAQ: DELL) will market its Streak tablet to the medical community.

Reuters:   Ellison will introduce Hurd during the company’s Q3 earnings report.

Reuters:   Twitter upgraded its website and added new features.

Reuters:   American International Group’s (NYSE: AIG) named a CEO of AIA ahead of its IPO.

Reuters:   An AIG deal to repay the government has made progress.

WSJ:   Federal Reserve officials disagree about how bad the economy is.

WSJ:   Several large companies in the midst of M&A will stage shareholder meetings.

WSJ:   Obama must face entitlement costs as half of American households use the social safety net.

WSJ:   Several diet drugs will be reviewed by the SEC.

WSJ:   Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will add new social network features.

WSJ:   Retail stores expect electronic devices such as e-readers and phones to help sales.

WSJ:   Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) has added to its hedge fund staff.

WSJ:   Browsers will be updated in a way the will change website design.

WSJ:   German economic expectations fell.

WSJ:   Boeing (NYSE: BA) is likely to lose a WTO ruling about aid it got from the US government.

WSJ:   Chrysler launched a number of new models.

WSJ:   Health insurance companies are more aggressive in talks with hospitals.

WSJ:   Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will begin to pay dividends.

WSJ:   New EU rules will target short selling.

WSJ:   Traders bought stock in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) after its CEO explained his new vision.

NYT:   The strong yen has helped Japanese companies with takeovers.

NYT:   Salmonella traces go back two years.

NYT:   Public Citizen, a non-profit, will question Obama’s plan to improve free trade.

FT:   BP plc (NYSE: BP) was punished for problems in its North Sea oil field.

FT:   Gold prices rose as central banks added to stocks.

Bloomberg:   China may delay rate increases because most inflation is tied to food prices.

Bloomberg:   Pimco’s chief said IMF meetings should target a double-dip.

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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