{"id":541497,"date":"2010-04-22T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/closing-bell-april-22-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T20:06:00","slug":"closing-bell-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-what-happened-today-msft-amzn-gs-xhb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541497","title":{"rendered":"Closing Bell: Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know About What happened Today (MSFT, AMZN, GS, XHB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bbeacdc7f8b9ad061220200-250-188\/thailand-red-shirt-protest.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Thailand Red Shirt Protest\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/strong>Healthcare having a hard day, but everything else is roughly flat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Markets:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DJIA<\/strong>: Up 9.37, or 0.08%, to 11134.29<\/li>\n<li><strong>NASDAQ<\/strong>: Up 14.46, or 0.58%, to 2519.07<\/li>\n<li><strong>S&amp;P 500<\/strong>: Up 2.74, or 0.23%, to 1208.67<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Commodities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oil<\/strong>: Up 0.06, or 0.07%, to 83.74.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gold<\/strong>: Down 4.50, or 0.39%, to 1142.50.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silver:<\/strong> Down 0.09, or 0.53%, to 18. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Now here&#8217;s what you need to know as you leave work today<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amazon and Microsoft report earnings after today&#8217;s closing bell<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sai\">Follow our coverage at SAI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This crisis in Greece is continuing to escalate, with the risk of default <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/imf-declares-that-the-greece-crisis-is-serious-2010-4\">growing by the minute<\/a>.<\/strong> RBS has come out saying that default is unlikely, because it would <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/209836\/rbs-a-greek-default-would-be-tantamount-to-the-end-of-the-euro\/\">bring the end of the euro<\/a> altogether as a result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President Obama&#8217;s speech to the banking community in New York is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-chanos-barack-obama-2010-4\">positive reviews<\/a>, as the momentum is turning towards passing financial reform<\/strong>. Democratic leader Sen. Reid plans on moving the financial reform bill to the Senate floor as early as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0410\/36218.html\">Monday<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Thai capital of Bangkok is under siege at the moment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6216ab6a-4ded-11df-b437-00144feab49a.html\">70 hurt and 3 killed in bomb blasts<\/a> in the city<\/strong>. The military is blaming anti-government protesters, who are fighting to have former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra brought back to power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>U.S. housing sale numbers boomed today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/abbda48a-4e10-11df-b437-00144feab49a.html\">beating expectations in March<\/a>. <\/strong>Homebuilders are reaping the rewards, with the industry ETF (XHB) rising nearly 4% today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The SEC&#8217;s case against Goldman Sachs is continuing to deteriorate, with the deal&#8217;s structurer, ACA, being found out as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-revelations-about-aca-further-bury-the-secs-case-2010-4\">root of much of the deal&#8217;s losses<\/a><\/strong>. That removes some of the blame from Paulson and Co.&#8217;s mortgage selections, which were pushed for by Goldman Sachs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A health care percentage on a restaurant bill, in San Francisco<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/2010\/04\/22\/read-this-then-pay-a-drifter-to-throw-you-down-a-flight-of-stairs\/\">Is this the future<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/closing-bell-april-22-2010-4#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\/ZTLsjGckRd4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare having a hard day, but everything else is roughly flat. U.S. Markets: DJIA: Up 9.37, or 0.08%, to 11134.29 NASDAQ: Up 14.46, or 0.58%, to 2519.07 S&amp;P 500: Up 2.74, or 0.23%, to 1208.67 Commodities: Oil: Up 0.06, or 0.07%, to 83.74. Gold: Down 4.50, or 0.39%, to 1142.50. 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