Media Digest 9/17/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Reuters:   Geithner will take the yuan issue to the G-20.

Reuters:   Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings beat Wall St. forecasts.

Reuters:   Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM) numbers beat forecasts.

Reuters:  The dollar was steady compared to the yen.

Reuters:   The Senate passed the small business bill.

Reuters:   Obama set a strategy to double US exports in five years.

Reuters:   Samsung introduced its Galaxy tablet in the US.

Reuters:   Sony (NYSE: SNE) said it was likely to reach its PS3 sales targets this year.

Reuters:   Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will try to buy biopharma Crucell.

Reuters:   It is still possible Chinese concerns will offer to buy Potash (NYSE: POT).

MarketWatch:   Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may hire a CEO this week.

WSJ:   Refiners have begun to fight emissions laws.

WSJ:   Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become two of the largest home sellers in the US.

WSJ:   A Justice Department investigation of US tech firms that have hiring agreements among them to keep down salaries is near an end.

WSJ:   The leveraged loan market has made a comeback.

WSJ:   The CEO of LG Electronics left, largely because of slow cellphone sales.

WSJ:   Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) will expand further into China.

WSJ:   Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) tablet will not be out for the holidays.

WSJ:   The Bank of Japan is under more pressure to help the value of the yen.

WSJ:   Silver hit the highest level since 1980.

WSJ:   VMWare (NYSE: VMW) is in talks to buy part of Novell.

WSJ:   Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will upgrade a number of its products.

WSJ:   Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 7 Mobile will only be offered on GSM networks.

WSJ:   China may force foreign car companies to give it electric vehicle technology to get access to its markets.

WSJ:   American families have made no financial gains in the last decade.

WSJ:   Tainted feed may have helped cause salmonella poisoning in eggs.

WSJ:   A paper delivered at a Brookings Institution conference shows the rich are more affected by the economy than others.

WSJ:   The number of uninsured Americans moved up sharply.

WSJ:   The head of the Johnson & Johnson consumer unit will retire.

WSJ:   Icahn owns enough debt in Blockbuster to control its restructuring.

WSJ:   Fiat may be broken into two companies.

WSJ:   GM expects the government to hold shares long-term.

WSJ:   A court will not dismiss charges against Countrywide executives.

NYT:   Hedge fund managers who left the business have created new firms.

FT:   Capital requirements may hurt bank balance sheets by 30% more than expected.

FT:   US banks are expected to post weak earnings and begin layoffs.

FT:   New computer chips will cause large advancements in processing power.

FT:   The US corn harvest may be weak.

Bloomberg:   India is at work on a permanent pact with Research In Motion to give that national security establishment access to BlackBerry data.

Bloomberg:   China may lose 2% of GDP growth as its cleans up its environment.

Douglas A. McIntyre