Media Digest (5/29/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

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JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) sells $25 billion in profitable securities to offset its trade debacle. (Reuters)

The SEC examines JP Morgan financial reports. (Reuters)

Marubeni buys U.S. grain company Gavilon Holdings for $3.6 billion. (Reuters)

The Samsung Galaxy S3 has an advantage because it will be launched before the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 5. (Reuters)

Low wages help revive U.S. manufacturing. (WSJ)

Spain’s bank bailout hurts its sovereign bond values. (WSJ)

The demand for cars in Japan jumps, which helps Toyota (NYSE: TM), Honda (NYSE: HMC) and Nissan. (WSJ)

Federal offices begin to probe whether BP (NYSE: BP) lied about how much oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon. (WSJ)

European companies and private equity firms move to U.S. banks as money in the eurozone dries up. (WSJ)

Many of the long-term unemployed will lose benefits this month, which often has to do with state rules. (WSJ)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will need to wring a large number of advantages from Skype to justify the $8.5 billion it paid. (NYT)

The Toyota Prius becomes the third best-selling car in the United States during the first quarter. (Bloomberg)

Actions by Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) are taken less seriously by the markets than in the past. (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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