{"id":350829,"date":"2010-02-22T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:398937"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:19:00","slug":"bernanke-schlumberger-earnings-energy-stocks-glaxo-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350829","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke, Schlumberger, earnings, energy stocks, Glaxo \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures added 4 points in pre-opening trade. <\/p>\n<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to present to the House Financial Services Committee this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Schlumberger offered to purchase Smith International in a friendly share exchange valued at $11.3 billion. Schlumberger slipped 5% and Smith International gained 7% on the news. <\/p>\n<p>Lowe\u2019s Companies added 3% after reporting higher than expected fourth quarter earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Soup is unchanged after reporting fiscal second quarter earnings in line with expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Credit Suisse changed opinions on two Canadian energy stocks. Cenovus was downgraded from Outperform to Neutral. Canadian Natural Resources was upgraded from Neutral to Outperform. <\/p>\n<p>GlaxoSmithKline eased 2% following a congressional report that raised concerns about Avandia, GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s diabetes drug.&nbsp; <\/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=398937\" 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 added 4 points in pre-opening trade. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to present to the House Financial Services Committee this morning. Schlumberger offered to purchase Smith International in a friendly share exchange valued at $11.3 billion. Schlumberger slipped 5% and Smith International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350829","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\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}