{"id":535743,"date":"2010-04-20T12:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-update-april-20-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T16:05:45","slug":"mid-day-update-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535743","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Day Update: Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/747a6c7958de8949b6fba300\/lloydblankfein-general-tbi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"lloydblankfein general tbi\" \/>Indices<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DJIA: Up 35 points to 11,126.<\/li>\n<li>NASDAQ: Up 14 points to 2494.<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P 500: Up 8 points to 1206.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Today&#8217;s biggest gainers on the S&amp;P 500<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harley-Davidson Inc (HOG): $$35.45 \/ +8.18%<\/li>\n<li>Marshall &amp; Iisley Corp (MI): $9.07 \/ +7.85%<\/li>\n<li>Snap-on Inc (SNA): $48.27 \/ +7.75%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s biggest losers on the S&amp;P 500<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northern Trust Corp (NTRS): $54.94 \/ -5.88%<\/li>\n<li>AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS): $19.63 \/ -5.76%<\/li>\n<li>State Street Corp (STT): $44.91 \/ -4.95%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Commodities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oil: Up 2.1% or $1.73 to $83.18 a barrel.<\/li>\n<li>Gold: Up 0.3% or $3.80 to $1139.60 an ounce.<\/li>\n<li>Silver: Up 0.9% or $0.17 to $17.90 an ounce.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Futures<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mostly solid gains across the board.<\/li>\n<li>Oil up, natural gas down.<\/li>\n<li>Softs, Grains showing strong performance, especially OJ, cocoa, and cotton.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Now here are the stories you need to know<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Markets have turned on Goldman Sachs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-sachs-smashes-estimates-2010-4\">above estimate earnings<\/a> the morning, with demand for risky assets rising as a result<\/strong>. The market has largely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/everyone-was-wrong-the-sp-has-now-basically-closed-the-goldman-gap-2010-4\">closed the gap<\/a> made after the announcement of the SEC&#8217;s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe&#8217;s volcanic ash crisis may be showing signs of a slowdown, with flights resuming in Germany and France<\/strong>. The threat of a second ash cloud continues to loom, though some experts see the ash portion of the eruption over, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/UK-News\/Volcanic-Ash-Cloud-Eyjafjallajokull-In-Iceland-Starts-To-Produce-Lava-Scientists-Claim\/Article\/201004315610061?f=rss\">lava<\/a> its future. Oil prices have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6142V820100420\">rebounded slightly<\/a> on the flight resumptions.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>UK and Irish airlines continue to lose money on the lack of flights, with Aer Lingus the latest to announce losses, thus far at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/irish\/aer-lingus-loses-euro20m-as-flight-ban-stays-2144396.html\">20 million euros ($27 million)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The IMF has blasted out another warning this morning, this time on the sovereign debt issue, saying that developed countries have post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/f1aebdc0-4c68-11df-8fe1-00144feab49a.html\">World War II like debt levels<\/a> without the war<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple reports after the close today, as analysts are projecting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/apple-could-dial-up-strong-earnings-with-iphone-2010-04-16\">rising sales<\/a> for the company&#8217;s iPhone model, and impressive results for the first quarter of the iPad<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-earnings-preview-2010-4\">The company is likely to show strong earnings, but not anything massive<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>All prices are posted as of 12:00 EST.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-update-april-20-2010-4#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\/HpAIq7-WUl8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indices: DJIA: Up 35 points to 11,126. NASDAQ: Up 14 points to 2494. S&amp;P 500: Up 8 points to 1206. Today&#8217;s biggest gainers on the S&amp;P 500: Harley-Davidson Inc (HOG): $$35.45 \/ +8.18% Marshall &amp; Iisley Corp (MI): $9.07 \/ +7.85% Snap-on Inc (SNA): $48.27 \/ +7.75% Today&#8217;s biggest losers on the S&amp;P 500: Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535743","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\/5632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}