{"id":489334,"date":"2010-03-30T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/good-morning-here-are-the-five-things-you-need-to-know-before-opening-bell-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:27:11","slug":"5-things-to-know-before-the-opening-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489334","title":{"rendered":"5 Things To Know Before The Opening Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/ebb9b9141388bf4917b51000-200-150\/coffee031709.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"coffee031709\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the five things you should be aware of this morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shipping companies are having such a difficult time keeping up with European and American demand that many full containers of products are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/packed-containers-piling-up-at-asian-ports-because-theres-too-much-demand-from-west-2010-3\">idling in Asian ports<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Two major steelmakers have ended 40 years of annual pricing on iron ore imports and have accepted a 90% price hike to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/brazils-vale-destroys-the-iron-ore-pricing-regime-grabbing-90-price-hikes-from-asia-2010-3\">soaring Asian demand<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The SEC has launched a probe into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/734fc852-3b83-11df-a4c0-00144feabdc0.html\">20 other financial institutions<\/a> to see if there were using a similar Repo 105 strategy to the one which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/former-lehman-trader-repo-105-is-clearly-balance-sheet-manipulation-2010-3\">scandalized Lehman Brothers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/finviz.com\/forex_charts.ashx?t=GBPUSD\">pound is up<\/a> this morning against the dollar on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/mar\/30\/uk-gdp-revised-up\">upward revision<\/a> of growth projections to 0.4% for Q4 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Global equities are approaching an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61718520100330\">18 month high<\/a> as U.S. stock futures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62025220100330\">moved higher<\/a> this morning in advance of the Case-Schiller housing report and consumer confidence data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/good-morning-here-are-the-five-things-you-need-to-know-before-opening-bell-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/get-ready-for-the-blind-buying-because-over-200-billion-is-dying-to-take-risk-2010-3\">Deutsche Bank Survey: Investors Dying To Take Risk This Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/singapores-huge-bet-on-sex-and-gambling-is-ab-2010-3\">Singapore&#8217;s Huge Bet On Sex And Gambling Is About To Pay Off Big Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/andy-xie-watch-out-for-koreas-implosion-2010-3\">Andy Xie: TIme To Freak Out About Korea&#8217;s Implosion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/fsFFCRZwVWE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the five things you should be aware of this morning: Shipping companies are having such a difficult time keeping up with European and American demand that many full containers of products are idling in Asian ports. 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