Media Digest (7/28/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) cut 2,000 jobs as the bank’s results faltered (Reuters)

Investors tried to move to safe investments as a default became more likely (Reuters)

A new Boehner plan will reduce the deficit by nearly $1 trillion according to the CBO (Reuters)

Nintendo kept its sales target but cut the price of its 3DS (Reuters)

Sony (NYSE: SNE) posted modest results but supported full years forecasts (Reuters)

Dunkin’ Donuts rallied after its IPO (Reuters)

Several states supported the AT&T (NYSE: T) buyout of T-Mobile (Reuters)

Half of the country’s healthcare spending will come from the federal government by 2020 according to trade journal Health Affairs (WSJ)

Repo borrowers could be badly hurt by a default (WSJ)

Groupon’s accounting practice drew scrutiny ahead of its IPO (WSJ)

Network systems company Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) posted poor earnings in a sign broadband systems investment may have slowed (WSJ)

A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute said there is no link between cellphones and cancer (WSJ)

The IMF warned on French bank borrowing (WSJ)

ArcelorMittal said steel demand was still strong (WSJ)

A judge’s decision may hurt the Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) takeover of NBC Universal (WSJ)

BSkyB will probably buy back shares (WSJ)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sued UBS over mortgage values (WSJ)

The cost to insure Treasuries hit an all-time high (WSJ)

Ford (NYSE: F) will increase production in India (NYT)

The Treasury must decide what bills to pay (NYT)
GM (NYSE: GM) will not sell Opel (NYT)
Investors voiced concern that the Fed has not done more to prevent a U.S. default (FT)
Emerging market financial ministers said they are concerned about the uncertainty of the Greek bailout and the IMF’s role (FT)
Nintendo cut its profit forecast by 82% (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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