{"id":546791,"date":"2010-04-29T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-things-april-29-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-29T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:26:00","slug":"10-things-you-need-to-know-before-the-opening-bell-gs-pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546791","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell (GS, PG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b13d9b8000000000060c625-289-218\/elin-whispering-to-tiger-woods.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Elin Whispering To Tiger Woods\" width=\"289\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good morning. Here&#8217;s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/euro-ticks-up-athens-stocks-surge-did-obama-save-the-euro-2010-4\"><strong>Greece shares are surging on renewed hope of some kind of bailout<\/strong><\/a>. Yesterday Barack Obama put pressure on Germany&#8217;s Angela Merkel, and the IMF has pledged increased support. Of course, we&#8217;ve seen this movie before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sovereign debt spreads are narrower across the board<\/strong>, suggesting a day of breathing room after the madness of this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Goldman Sachs (GS) may be nearing a settlement with the SEC<\/strong>, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-settlement-2010-4\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gulf-oil-leak-is-5x-worse-than-initially-thought-as-desperate-officials-begin-to-burn-it-2010-4\">The massive oil spill in the gulf<\/a> is 5x more severe than previously thought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weekly jobless claims are out at 8:30 AM. <strong>Analysts are expecting initial claims of 445K<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/moneygame\">Check back here for the results<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>UK traders are buzzing about their own sovereign debt risks, and fears that S&amp;P will reduce its ratings next. The origin, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/29\/215496\/britains-very-own-aa-rating-rumours\/\">FT Alphaville<\/a>, is a specific Barclays report, though there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much to it. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of the UK, the Labour party is in serious damage control mode after the Prime Minister&#8217;s horrendous gaffe yesterday, when he called a little old lady a bigot. Word from the Labour party is that yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/election_2010\/8650546.stm\">immigration questions are perfectly legitimate<\/a>. <strong>A major debate is scheduled for tonight<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2010-04\/29\/content_9788445.htm\">France&#8217;s Sarkozy pays official state visit to China<\/a><\/strong> in effort to strengthen ties between the two countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today labor unions <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/04\/10\/labor_union_to_protest_on_wall_stre.php\">will descend onto Wall Street for a day of protest<\/a>. Should make for some good pictures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shares of Procter &amp; Gamble (PG) are slipping<\/strong> pre-market after the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bellweather-procter-and-gamble-slipping-after-revenue-and-outlook-light-2010-4\">reported light revenues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BONUS<\/strong>: A new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/celebs\/news\/2010\/04\/29\/tiger-woods-confessed-121-affairs-during-marriage-to-wife-115875-22219848\/\">UK&#8217;s Daily Mirror<\/a> claims Tiger Woods has enumerated the exact number of women he cheated with. The number is&#8230; wait for it&#8230; 121.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-things-april-29-2010-4#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\/S-G907XYi_o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Here&#8217;s what you need to know: Greece shares are surging on renewed hope of some kind of bailout. Yesterday Barack Obama put pressure on Germany&#8217;s Angela Merkel, and the IMF has pledged increased support. Of course, we&#8217;ve seen this movie before. Sovereign debt spreads are narrower across the board, suggesting a day of [&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-546791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546791","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=546791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}