Media Digest (4/5/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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After legal issues slowed their progress last year, foreclosures are about to increase. (Reuters)

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) may end its deal with Current TV because of low ratings. (Reuters)

The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining stock exchanges for failing to disclose changes in their rules. (Reuters)

Worries about the eurozone increase because of a troubled debt auction by Spain. (Reuters)

New York State examines insurers for forcing products on homeowners. (WSJ)

As Russia joins the World Trade Organization, U.S. businesses have done little to exploit its markets. (WSJ)

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube and Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA) set a movie rental deal. (WSJ)

The European Central Bank expresses concerns about inflation in the region. (WSJ)

Dynegy Holdings (NYSE: DYN) is close to a deal with bondholders that would take the value of equity to zero. (WSJ)

Carl Icahn attacks the board of drug maker Amylin (NASDAQ: AMLN) for rejecting a takeover offer from Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY). (WSJ)

The market for pooled junk bonds rises quickly. (WSJ)

JP Morgan’s (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon made $23 million last year, which is tops among bank chief executives. (WSJ)

A study by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that Americans have cut use of doctors and prescription medications. (NYT)

An increase in U.S. crude stocks pushes oil prices down. (FT)

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) meets with Moody’s in an attempt to stop a ratings cut. (FT)

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) cuts 2,000 jobs as part of a restructuring. (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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