{"id":541958,"date":"2010-04-23T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-april-23-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-23T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T16:13:00","slug":"mid-day-update-heres-what-you-need-to-know-gs-xhb-xrx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541958","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Day Update: Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know (GS, XHB, XRX)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b02f88800000000004f1f4d-250-187\/new-homes-arizona.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"new homes Arizona\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>Indices<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * DJIA: Flat at 11,134.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * NASDAQ: Down 5 points to 2513.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * S&amp;P 500: Down 1 point to 1207.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s biggest gainers on the S&amp;P 500<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Western Digital Corp (WDC): $44.19 \/ +8.63%<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Xerox Corp (XRX): $11.30 \/ +8.13%<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Dover Corp (DOV): $55.97 \/ +7.40%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&#8217;s biggest losers on the S&amp;P 500<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Devry Inc (DV): $68.56 \/ -7.66%<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * King Pharmaceuticals Inc (KG): $10.55 \/ -4.95%<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Rockwell Collins Inc (COL): $65.11 \/ -4.02%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commodities<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Oil: Up 0.97% or $0.81 to $84.51 a barrel.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Gold: Up 1.11% or $12.70 to $1155.60 an ounce.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Silver: Up 1% or $0.18 to $18.22 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Futures<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Mixed, with grains taking a hit along with orange juice, lumber, and sugar.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Energy up; natural gas up 1.1% to 4.1730.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Corn down 2% and wheat falling 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now here are the stories you need to know<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Greece has turned to the IMF and EU, activating their <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703709804575201330937572258.html?mod=fox_australian\">support mechanism<\/a> for the debt troubled state<\/strong>. The action is reassuring markets that Greece has a backstop, and may not default on its debt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Attacks in Baghdad today have killed at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmSSCiqGwD9F8PKPG0\">58 people<\/a> with over twice as many injured<\/strong>. The attacks are likely a retaliation against the Iraqi government killing several Al-Qaeda chiefs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The SEC&#8217;s case against Goldman Sachs was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/here-are-documents-that-prove-the-secs-case-against-goldman-is-totally-bogus-2010-4\">further diminished today<\/a>, as it was revealed that the marketing documents from the German bank involved in the deal suggest the firm had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-check-out-how-goldmans-other-victim-represented-itself-to-clients-2010-4\">complete grasp<\/a> if the deal they were investing in<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New home sales skyrocketed in March, reaching <a href=\"http:\/\/preview.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-04-23\/sales-of-new-homes-in-u-s-climbed-in-march-by-most-since-1963.html\">five year highs<\/a><\/strong>. Homebuilders are having a good day as a result, with the industry ETF (XHB) up nearly 1.5%.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Xerox has been a performer today, jumping around 8% on <a href=\"http:\/\/preview.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-04-23\/xerox-jumps-most-in-more-than-a-year-as-forecast-tops-analysts-estimates.html\">higher than expected profits<\/a><\/strong>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>All prices as of 12:00 PM EST<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-april-23-2010-4#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\/F7DMsp33UlE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indices: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * DJIA: Flat at 11,134.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * NASDAQ: Down 5 points to 2513.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * S&amp;P 500: Down 1 point to 1207. Today&#8217;s biggest gainers on the S&amp;P 500: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Western Digital Corp (WDC): $44.19 \/ +8.63%&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Xerox Corp (XRX): $11.30 \/ +8.13%&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; * Dover Corp (DOV): $55.97 \/ +7.40% Today&#8217;s biggest losers [&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-541958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541958","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=541958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}