{"id":189302,"date":"2010-04-20T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/economics-update-65\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:16:00","slug":"economics-update-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/economics-update-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bunch of news, but is news is good news, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63I3DM20100419?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Business+News%29\"><span>Conference Board&#8217;s index of leading  economic indicators<\/span> rising sharply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-foreclosures-20100421,0,7066382.story\">defaults<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dqnews.com\/Articles\/2010\/News\/California\/CA-Foreclosures\/RRFor100420.aspx\">foreclosures<\/a> fell in California, though one wonders whether this is a real improvement, or if it&#8217;s just that we&#8217;ve basically run out of non-delinquent\/foreclosed houses.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;affaire Goldman seems to the primary mover in oil, with strong Goldman earnings <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/04\/20\/markets\/oil\/\">driving oil prices  higher<\/a>, while the juxtaposition of the Goldman numbers and the uncertainty about Greece <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/04\/20\/markets\/dollar\/index.htm\">left the dollar  mixed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on edit<\/span>]<br \/>The Canadian Ddollar has broken the 1:1 ratio with the US dollar, hitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/797903--loonie-back-above-parity-as-bank-warns-of-higher-rates?bn=1\">$1.0012  U.S<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a bunch of news, but is news is good news, with the Conference Board&#8217;s index of leading economic indicators rising sharply. Additionally, defaults and foreclosures fell in California, though one wonders whether this is a real improvement, or if it&#8217;s just that we&#8217;ve basically run out of non-delinquent\/foreclosed houses. L&#8217;affaire Goldman seems to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1088,1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-real-estate","category-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}