Media Digest (4/6/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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The SEC has a plan to lower market volatility (Reuters)

A re-balancing of the Nasdaq 100 cuts Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) influence on the index (Reuters)

John Chambers, the head of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) said he would restore the company to its former glory (Reuters)

Twitter had service problems which stopped some people from gaining access to the site (Reuters)

AIG (NYSE: AIG) will try to invest cash on its balance sheet to buy back some of its former assets from the Federal Reserve (Reuters)

Budget talks have not made enough progress to prevent a possible government shut-down (WSJ)

Warren Buffett’s rules about insider trading at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) were not followed by David Sokol (WSJ)

The ECB will raise interest rates to curb inflation while the Federal Reserve continues to buy bonds in the open market (WSJ)

Dish Network won the auction for Blockbuster’s assets (WSJ)

Columbia and the US will probably agree to a free trade deal (WSJ)

Boeing (NYSE: BA) said problems with older 737s occurred earlier than expected (WSJ)

German banks have approached the government about raising more money (WSJ)

Borders will release the plan to get it out of Chapter 11 (WSJ)

Moody’s may downgrade Toyota (NYSE: TM) (WSJ)

Transocean (NYSE: RIG) will donate their bonuses to charity after receiving money for the firms safety record (WSJ)

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) sold its last food brand–Pringles (WSJ)

Top mortgage service companies will agree to move oversight (WSJ)

The IMF may take a role in capital flows among nations (FT)

The Fed will continue its QE2 program as some members contemplate and exit (FT)

Portugal is in talks to accept EU aid (FT)

China’s tightening of money may not slow inflation but could curb growth (Bloomberg)

The IMF said it was concerned about Norway’s government spending (Bloomberg)

Knight Frank LLP says Monaco is the most expensive country in which to buy a luxury home (Bloomberg)

The cost of solar energy may equal coal’s soon (Bloomberg)

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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