{"id":11711,"date":"2010-12-07T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=11711"},"modified":"2010-12-07T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:00:01","slug":"links-for-december-7th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/links-for-december-7th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for December 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for December 7th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-07\/citigroup-to-shed-government-handcuffs-as-treasury-prepares-stake-sale.html\">U.S. Ends Citigroup Investment With $10.5 Billion Stake Sale &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; The U.S. Treasury Department sold its remaining stock in Citigroup Inc. for $10.5 billion, bringing the country&rsquo;s third-biggest bank a step closer to independence from the government following a $45 billion bailout in 2008.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703296604576005361812559824.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">New Bank Stress Tests Planned for February &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; The new pan-European Union banking regulator will begin a new round of bank stress tests in February, the EU&#039;s economics commissioner said Tuesday.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nThe fresh tests will be part of a broader drive for stricter monitoring of European financial institutions by the recently created European Banking Authority.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Swiss-supporters-WikiLeaks-apf-3363380455.html?x=0\">Swiss supporters: WikiLeaks server goes down &#8211; Yahoo! Finance<\/a> &#8211; WikiLeaks&#039;s main server in France has gone offline, preventing many users from accessing the U.S. State Department cables and other documents the site has posted online, a group of Swiss supporters said Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-05\/branson-says-oil-may-hit-200-a-barrel-without-new-clean-energy-policies.html\">Branson Says Oil May Hit $200 a Barrel Without New Clean-Energy Policies &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Oil prices may soar to $200 a barrel if the world doesn&rsquo;t move more rapidly to a clean-energy economy, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., said in an interview.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-04\/trichet-challenges-eu-as-spain-unveils-new-budget-cuts-to-fight-contagion.html\">EU&#8217;s Bailout Fund May Be Increased, Reynders Says in a Break With Merkel<\/a> &#8211; Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders said the euro region could increase the size of its 750 billion-euro ($1 trillion) bailout fund, breaking ranks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France&rsquo;s Nicolas Sarkozy .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for December 7th : U.S. Ends Citigroup Investment With $10.5 Billion Stake Sale &#8211; Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Treasury Department sold its remaining stock in Citigroup Inc. for $10.5 billion, bringing the country&rsquo;s third-biggest bank a step closer to independence from the government following a $45 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-11711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}