{"id":12744,"date":"2011-03-23T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2011-03-23T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:00:07","slug":"links-for-march-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/links-for-march-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 23rd :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Portugals-PM-quits-after-apf-2208694709.html?x=0\">Portugal&#8217;s PM quits after debt-cutting plan nixed &#8211; Yahoo! Finance<\/a> &#8211; LISBON, Portugal (AP) &#8212; Debt-stressed Portugal&#039;s prime minister says he has quit after opposition parties scuppered his proposals devised to avoid a bailout.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/egypt-stocks-slump-at-open-trade-suspended-2011-03-23\">Egypt bourse slumps in truncated trading session Emerging Markets Report &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; Egyptian stocks tumbled nearly 9% Wednesday when the market reopened for the first time since late January and investors reacted to the political upheaval of the past two months.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704050204576218572948270778.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_world\">Italy Approves Nuclear Pause &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; The Italian cabinet Wednesday approved, as expected, a one-year moratorium for the country&#039;s nuclear comeback, and the government may decide to end the atomic program if it isn&#039;t satisfied with the European Union&#039;s stress tests on safety, ministers said.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704050204576218480566706182.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird\">Portugal Braces for Government Collapse &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Portugal&#039;s government could collapse Wednesday after opposition parties withdrew their support for another round of austerity policies aimed at averting a financial bailout<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-12827752\">BBC News &#8211; Stock trades to exploit speed of light, says researcher<\/a> &#8211; &quot;High-frequency trading&quot; carried out by computers often depends on differing prices of a financial instrument in two geographically-separated markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 23rd : Portugal&#8217;s PM quits after debt-cutting plan nixed &#8211; Yahoo! Finance &#8211; LISBON, Portugal (AP) &#8212; Debt-stressed Portugal&#039;s prime minister says he has quit after opposition parties scuppered his proposals devised to avoid a bailout. Egypt bourse slumps in truncated trading session Emerging Markets [&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-12744","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\/12744","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=12744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}