Media Digest (4/14/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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A  report  from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations accuses Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) of selling weak financial securities and betting against the interests of its clients. (Reuters)

Glencore will raise up to $11 billion with its IPO which will be listed in Hong Kong and London. (Reuters)

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) suppliers have begun to make white iPhones. (Reuters)

BP plc (NYSE: BP) and Russian owned oil company Rosneft extended the deadline for making a deal to drill in the Arctic. (Reuters)

Toys “R” Us will probably have its IPO in July. (Reuters)

The US investigated whether large banks worked together to manipulate the Libor. (WSJ)

US regulators began the sanctions of banks which allowed illegal foreclosure practices (WSJ)

China’s Citic will raise $1.5 billion. (WSJ)

The NYSE (NYSE: NYX) may offer a dividend to close and M&A deal with Deutsche Boerse. (WSJ)

Warner Music (NYSE: WMG) plans to sell itself intact. (WSJ)

The Bank of Ireland reported lower loan losses last year. (WSJ)

A high euro could hurt the rescues of Portugal and Ireland. (WSJ)

Dynegy hired restructuring experts to avoid bankruptcy. (WSJ)

MGM Resorts will take majority interest in its Macau venture. (WSJ)

Nokia Siemens may seek private equity capital. (WSJ)

The global demand for PCs fell in the first quarter. (WSJ)

American Air (NYSE: AMR) sued Orbitz over anti-competitive practices. (WSJ)

Web advertising passed newspapers for the first time, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (WSJ)

China’s GDP growth rate has become harder to determine. (WSJ)

The US will ask emerging nations to help curtail certain financial practices encouraged by China. (NYT)

Erectile drug manufacturers are improving products as generics come to market. (NYT)

The Beige Book says that the economy is still recovering nicely. (NYT)

A rise in the price of silver and gold has stoked concerns about inflation. (FT)

Obama suggested a budget plan to cut the deficit by $4 trillion over the next ten years. (FT)

A goal of Greece to return to the capital markets may be delayed a year. (FT)

Tepco says plans to make its nuclear plant more stable may take three months or more. (Bloomberg)

The heads of BRIC nations say commodities price changes could undermine growth. (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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