{"id":532648,"date":"2010-04-18T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-weekends-over-sp-futures-are-heading-down-and-the-pound-is-getting-whacked-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-18T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:46:40","slug":"the-weekends-over-sp-futures-are-heading-down-and-the-pound-is-getting-whacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532648","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend&#8217;s Over: S&#038;P Futures Are Heading Down, And The Pound Is Getting Whacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to work!<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s note that the S&amp;P is down about 4 points in early futures trading. Of course there&#8217;s still nearly 15 hours before the market officially opens, so&#8230; a lot could happen before then.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcb8afa7f8b9ac737730300\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pound is really getting slammed, and it&#8217;s speculated that it&#8217;s the result of some combination of election polls and the investigation of Goldman Sachs (GS).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcb8b427f8b9a623cd40000\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the news is going to be dominated by two things: The volcano (still crippling European air travel) and Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>Also note, Goldman earnings come Tuesday. That should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-weekends-over-sp-futures-are-heading-down-and-the-pound-is-getting-whacked-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/BBiJ8WDfsyg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to work! First, let&#8217;s note that the S&amp;P is down about 4 points in early futures trading. Of course there&#8217;s still nearly 15 hours before the market officially opens, so&#8230; a lot could happen before then. The pound is really getting slammed, and it&#8217;s speculated that it&#8217;s the result of some combination of election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532648","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}