Media Digest (11/18/2011) Reuters,WSJ, NYT, FT

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Greek citizens stage large protests. (Reuters)

Citigroup (NYSE: C), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) could be affected when S&P updates its credit ratings on the world’s 30 largest banks. (Reuters)

The Highway Loss Data Institute says hybrids are often safer in crashes. (Reuters)

The California Attorney General sends subpoenas to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a review of lending foreclosure practices. (Reuters)

The ECB has a secret 20 billion euro bond-buying limit. (Reuters)

Proxy votes for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer decline. (Reuters)

The Super Committee reaches no decision on Bush-era tax cuts. (WSJ)

The European Central Bank may be the only hope for a euro region bail out. (WSJ)

Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) puts its online gallery up for sale. (WSJ)

UBS (NYSE: UBS) will fire thousands at its investment bank. (WSJ)

Pressure on Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) CEO increases due to poor performance. (WSJ)

Shares of Liberty Starz (NASDAQ: LSTZA) and Liberty Capital (NASDAQ: LCAPA) will be combined. (WSJ)

Data shows that Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Fire has low margins. (WSJ)

Yelp files for an IPO to raise $100 million. (WSJ)

A new Spanish government will increase austerity plans. (WSJ)

Activist shareholder Relational Investors will get a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) board seat. (WSJ)

Gamestop (NYSE: GME) cuts its forecasts. (WSJ)

Silver Lake Partners is closer to a deal to buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (WSJ)

Italy’s new prime minister offers a package to turn around the nation’s finances. (NYT)

Organized crime may be involved in the losses at Olympus. (NYT)

Spain’s borrowing costs soar. (FT)

NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse will make some concessions to complete their marriage. (FT)

Home prices in many Chinese cities fall. (FT)

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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