Media Digest (8/10/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) says QE3 was likely after the Fed’s recent comments. (Reuters)

HSBC (NYSE: HBC) sells its U.S. credit card business to Capitol One. (Reuters)

China not likely to raise interest rates for the time being. (Reuters)

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) blocks Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet in the EU. (Reuters)

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) to launch its video service Vudu on the iPad without use of an app. (Reuters)

Nestle improves its outlook and says that prices offset commodities costs. (Reuters)

China announces its largest trade surplus in 2 years and the yuan moves higher against the dollar.  (WSJ)

California’s tax receipts come in well under budget. (WSJ)

The SEC reviewing Goldman Sachs relationships with Libya. (WSJ)

The Administration will seek plans to turn foreclosed homes into rentals. (WSJ)

Trouble with commercial mortgage-backed securities have hurt the recovery of the commercial real estate market. (WSJ)

The market cap of Apple briefly rises above that of Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM). (WSJ)

Facebook will offer an app for mobile messaging. (WSJ)

Wall St. reacts to AOL (NYSE: AOL) earnings by pushing its stock 26% lower. (WSJ)

Members of both parties attack the Standard & Poor’s rating system. (WSJ)

France says its policies will ensure its AAA rating. (WSJ)

Business in Las Vegas has finally picked up. (WSJ)

Results from TV and parks help earnings of Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). (WSJ)

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) both lost pay TV subscribers. (WSJ)

Market trouble delays some tech IPOs. (WSJ)

Oil companies with concentrations on exploration could have profits squeezed as crude drops. (WSJ)

Visa (NYSE: V) to offer cards with chip recognition technology. (WSJ)

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) seek to reassure employees and markets that they are healthy. (WSJ)

Bank of America to sell part of its mortgage portfolio to Fannie Mae. (WSJ)

Some investors worry that ECB purchases of Italian and Spanish bonds will not last. (NYT)

GM (NYSE: GM) to cut costs for several more years. (NYT)

Gold vaults increase the price for storing the precious metal. (FT)

Goldman Sachs says it lost money on 15 trading days in the past quarter. (FT)

S&P says some states can be rated higher than the U.S. (FT)

EON to cut 11,000 workers and lower its dividend. (Bloomberg)

Apple sued over claims it fixed e-book prices. (Bloomberg)

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) lost search engine share to Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) last month. (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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