Media Digest (5/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

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Facebook’s initial public offering is already oversubscribed. (Reuters)

JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) books a $2 billion trading loss, and the figure could rise by another $1 billion. (Reuters)

China’s industrial production and retail activity slow to multiyear lows. (Reuters)

Germany tells Greece it must rely on its reforms and not more bailout alterations. (Reuters)

Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO says he never supplied its board with a resume. (Reuters)

Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) shares fall to a multidecade low after it posts a huge annual loss. (Reuters)

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) are said to have discussed a buyout. (Reuters)

Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) has huge liabilities from $1.4 billion off-balance-sheet commitment. (WSJ)

China wants the Big Four auditors to turn over their local activities to native firms. (WSJ)

Credit Agricole’s earnings are hurt by positions in Greece. (WSJ)

T-Mobile says it had severe customer losses last quarter. (WSJ)

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) says demand from corporate customers remains good. (WSJ)

Top CEOs lobby Congress on concerns about the nation’s increased debt. (WSJ)

Bank of France data shows France will have zero GDP growth in the first half. (WSJ)

An FDA advisory committee backs a new obesity drug from Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARNA). (WSJ)

Mortgage rates continue to fall to all-time lows. (WSJ)

Corn prices fall as the U.S. increases estimates for crop sizes. (WSJ)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Facebook join forces to create a new version of Bing to better compete with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). (NYT)

Policy markets discover that the U.S. manufacturing industry needs subsidies to survive. (NYT)

Moody’s issues warnings about capital reserves to many global banks. (FT)

U.S. banks may be hurt by a series of credit agency downgrades that could happen in the next month. (FT)

An FTC review could delay Facebook’s deal to buy Instagram. (FT)

Spain may be given more time to handle its debt if it submits to reviews and audits of its financials. (FT)

UK consumer confidence falls, according to the National Building Society. (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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