{"id":259955,"date":"2010-02-01T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:389653"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:27:00","slug":"obama-exxon-mobil-research-in-motion-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259955","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Exxon Mobil, Research in Motion \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures were up 6 points in pre-opening markets. <\/p>\n<p>Index futures moved slightly higher following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for December Personal Income was a gain of 0.3% versus an increase of 0.4% in November. Actual was a gain of 0.4%. Consensus for December Personal Spending was an increase of 0.2% versus an increase of 0.5% in November. Actual was an increase of 0.2%. <\/p>\n<p>Slight weakness in the U.S. Dollar also helped equity index futures. Commodities priced in U.S. Dollars including gold, silver and crude oil are trading higher.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama is scheduled to release his 186 page $3.8 trillion 2011 budget at 10:00 AM EST. Investors are bracing for the likelihood of a rising federal government budget deficit. <\/p>\n<p>Exxon Mobil added 2% after reporting higher than expected fourth quarter earnings. Consensus was $1.19 per share versus $1.54 last year. Actual was $1.27. Almost all earnings came from upstream oil and gas production. The company lost $189 million from marketing and refining operations, but recorded significant gains from its petrochemical operations. <\/p>\n<p>Research in Motion was upgraded by Standpoint Research from Hold to Buy. Target price is $80 U.S. <\/p>\n<p><i>Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free<br \/>\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and<br \/>\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/\" >Don Vialoux&#39;s Web site<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=389653\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures were up 6 points in pre-opening markets. Index futures moved slightly higher following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for December Personal Income was a gain of 0.3% versus an increase of 0.4% in November. Actual was a gain of 0.4%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}