Media Digest (8/5/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Wall St. had its worst sell-off in two years (Reuters)

Regulators have begun to tussle over interpretations of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill (Reuters)

LinkedIn (NYSE: LNK) posted strong earnings and a good forecast (Reuters)

New York State will challenge a Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) settlement of claims on mortgage backed securities (Reuters)

Kraft (NYSE: KFT) broke itself into two pieces because of activist investors (WSJ)

Low mortgage rates may have to go even lower to encourage people to refinance existing home loans (WSJ)

GM (NYSE: GM) earnings were helped by its program that cut 47 plants to 32 (WSJ)

Southwest (NYSE: LUV) will cut flights because of high fuel costs (WSJ)

Sony (NYSE: SNE) said it would keep making TV sets (WSJ)

Obama pushed for new programs to increase jobs (WSJ)

The ECB has begun to buy bonds from weak eurozone nations in the hope of averting another wave of sovereign crisis (WSJ)

Japan has begun to try to weaken the yen (WSJ)

The Swiss are worried the price of their franc, driven by safe haven buying, will hurt the economy (WSJ)

Retail sales gained slightly in July (WSJ)

U.S. small businesses have more worries with sales than they do getting bank credit (WSJ)

Concerns about Dendreon’s (NASDAQ: DNDN) Provenge pushed its shares down over 60% (WSJ)

UK banks are concerned about exposure to Belgian debt (WSJ)

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS) got approval to drill in the Arctic (NYT)

Concerns about a slowdown hit oil and metals stock prices (FT)

AIG (NYSE: AIG) said its earnings crisis has ended as it posted good results (FT)

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is under pressure to drop the price on PS3 to help sales (Bloomberg)

GM (NYSE: GM) pushed ahead of Toyota (NYSE: TM) as the world’s largest car company (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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