{"id":403498,"date":"2010-03-08T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:404750"},"modified":"2010-03-08T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:10:00","slug":"greece-aig-mcdonalds-us-steel-cisco-rim-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403498","title":{"rendered":"Greece, AIG, McDonalds, US Steel, Cisco, RIM \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are slightly higher this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures improved one point in pre-opening trade. Strength in equity index futures was helped by slight weakness in the U.S. Dollar and slight strength in the Euro following confirmation by European politicians over the weekend that Europe was will take action to resolve the Greek financial crisis. Commodities priced in U.S. Dollars including gold, silver, copper, gasoline and crude oil are trading slightly higher. <\/p>\n<p>AIG added 2% and MetLife gained 4% on news that AIG sold a major U.S. unit to MetLife for $15.5 billion. On the charts, MetLife is poised to open above resistance levels at $40.31 and $40.53.<\/p>\n<p>McDonalds added 1% on news that February same store sales rose 4.8%. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. Steel gained 2% after Goldman Sach upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy. <\/p>\n<p>Cisco improved 1% after JP Morgan upgraded the stock from Neutral to Overweight. Technically, Cisco broke resistance at $25.10 on Friday to reach an 18 month high.<\/p>\n<p>\nResearch in Motion gained 2% after BMO Capital Markets upgraded the<br \/>\nstock to Outperform. On the charts, RIMM is poised to break above key<br \/>\nresistance levels at $72.00 U.S. ($76.17 Cdn.).&nbsp;&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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=404750\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are slightly higher this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures improved one point in pre-opening trade. Strength in equity index futures was helped by slight weakness in the U.S. Dollar and slight strength in the Euro following confirmation by European politicians over the weekend that Europe was will take action to resolve the [&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-403498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403498","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=403498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}