{"id":12888,"date":"2011-03-29T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:00:18","slug":"links-for-march-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/links-for-march-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 29th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/dollar-boosted-by-fed-comments-2011-03-29\">Dollar boosted by Fed comments Currencies &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; LONDON (MarketWatch) &mdash; The dollar remained lower versus most major rivals Tuesday, but trimmed losses after a Federal Reserve official said policy makers may not be able to wait until global crises are resolved to begin withdrawing its ultra-accommodative monetary policy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-29\/dying-banks-kept-alive-show-secrets-fed-s-data-will-reveal-for-first-time.html\">Dying Banks Kept Alive Among Secrets Fed Data Will Reveal &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; U.S. regulators closed Chicago- based Park National Bank in October 2009 when it owed $345 million to one of the lowest-cost lenders in town: the Federal Reserve&rsquo;s discount window. Park National had been a constant customer at the window for more than 18 months before it failed, records show.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-28\/radiation-outside-damaged-japan-reactor-may-cause-death-within-two-months.html\">Kan Slams Tepco&#8217;s Tsunami Defenses, Offers Assurances Over Radiation Leaks &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Tokyo Electric Power Co.&rsquo;s sea wall, designed to withstand a 5.5-meter (18-foot) wave, was breached by a surge estimated by the government to be almost three times higher following the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11. Back-up diesel generators for cooling systems, which might have prevented the nuclear disaster, were positioned in a basement swamped by the wave.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-29\/fed-presidents-say-economy-still-needs-support-from-bond-purchase-program.html\">Fed Presidents Support Completion of Bond-Buying Program &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Two Federal Reserve regional bank presidents voiced support for the completion of the central bank&rsquo;s $600 billion Treasury securities-purchase program through June, saying it&rsquo;s too soon to remove stimulus from the economy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/disposable-income-in-february-falls-as-prices-jump-2011-03-28?dist=afterbell\">Disposable income falls as prices jump, data show Economic Report &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; The personal consumption expenditure index, which Federal Reserve officials say is a more accurate gauge of inflation than the better-known consumer price index, increased 0.4% on the month, the largest monthly gain since July 2008. Read &ldquo;Why spending data should hurt, not help, stocks.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/financials-mixed-bid-talk-lifts-nyse-euronext-2011-03-28\">Financials close lower; banks to talk settlement Financial Stocks &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; Shares of U.S. financial firms closed lower on Monday after spending most of the day in positive territory, with NYSE Euronext and some major banks drawing most of the attention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-28\/tokyo-electric-discovers-plutonium-in-soil-near-damaged-fukushima-reactor.html\">Tokyo Electric Finds Plutonium in Soil Near Fukushima Plant &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Tokyo Electric Power Co. found plutonium in soil samples taken near the stricken Fukushima Dai- Ichi nuclear plant a week ago, the company said.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-28\/hazardous-radiation-levels-stall-efforts-to-cool-reactors-prevent-leaks.html\">Fatal Radiation Detected Outside Damaged Japanese Reactor &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Radiation levels that can prove fatal were detected outside reactor buildings at Japan&rsquo;s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant for the first time, complicating efforts to contain the worst disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 29th : Dollar boosted by Fed comments Currencies &#8211; MarketWatch &#8211; LONDON (MarketWatch) &mdash; The dollar remained lower versus most major rivals Tuesday, but trimmed losses after a Federal Reserve official said policy makers may not be able to wait until global crises are resolved [&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-12888","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\/12888","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=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}