{"id":12353,"date":"2011-03-07T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2011-03-07T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:00:03","slug":"links-for-march-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/links-for-march-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 7th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/oil-prices-continued-hostilities-libya-oil-nears-107\/story?id=13074764\">Hostilities in Libya Continue as Gas Rises Again to National Average of $3.52 a Gallon, Highest in March Since 1990 &#8211; ABC News<\/a> &#8211; The national average is $3.52 per gallon, up from $3.38 per gallon last week and 77 cents high than a year ago. This is the highest price ever posted during the month of March.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-07\/consumer-credit-in-u-s-increased-by-5-01-billion-in-fourth-monthly-gain.html\">Consumer Credit in U.S. Increased $5.01 Billion in January &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; U.S. consumer borrowing increased for a fourth straight month in January, led by a gain in non- revolving loans such as those for automobiles and education, the Federal Reserve reported today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-12664681\">BBC News &#8211; Greece debt rating cut further by Moody&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; Moody&#039;s cited &quot;endemic tax evasion&quot;, &quot;very ambitious&quot; austerity plans, and the possibility that the EU may force a debt restructuring on Greece after 2013 as reasons for its decision.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/07\/business\/07drug.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Drug Firms Face Billions in Losses as Patents End &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; At the end of November, Pfizer stands to lose a $10-billion-a-year revenue stream when the patent on its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor expires and cheaper generics begin to cut into the company&rsquo;s huge sales.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-07\/microsoft-is-said-to-pay-nokia-more-than-1-billion-under-software-accord.html\">Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Accord &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will pay Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/06\/us-eurozone-germany-lobbies-idUSTRE7251S820110306?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Business+News%29\">German business lobbies call for tough euro rules | Reuters<\/a> &#8211; BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Germany&#039;s main business lobbies on Sunday called on countries sharing the euro currency to adopt tough rules at an upcoming summit aimed at sorting out Europe&#039;s debt crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 7th : Hostilities in Libya Continue as Gas Rises Again to National Average of $3.52 a Gallon, Highest in March Since 1990 &#8211; ABC News &#8211; The national average is $3.52 per gallon, up from $3.38 per gallon last week and 77 cents high than [&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-12353","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\/12353","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=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}