{"id":12904,"date":"2011-03-31T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T02:00:05","slug":"links-for-march-30th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/31\/links-for-march-30th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for March 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 30th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-31\/sands-china-says-under-investigation-by-hong-kong-regulator.html\">Sands China Says Under Investigation by Hong Kong Regulator &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Sands China Ltd. (1928), controlled by Sheldon Adelson&rsquo;s casino company, said it&rsquo;s under investigation by Hong Kong&rsquo;s Securities and Futures Commission for alleged breaches of regulations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-30\/hoenig-blames-fed-for-higher-commodity-prices-urges-monetary-tightening.html\">Hoenig Faults Fed for Higher Commodity Costs, Urges Tightening &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; The Federal Reserve&rsquo;s &ldquo;highly accommodative&rdquo; monetary policy is partly to blame for rapidly increasing global commodity prices, said Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, who called on colleagues to raise the benchmark interest rate toward 1 percent soon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.delicious.com\/v2\/rss\/andrewblogger\">500 Internal Server Error<\/a> &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-29\/microsoft-is-said-to-plan-mobile-payments-in-next-windows-phone.html\">Microsoft Is Said to Plan Mobile Payments Feature in Next Windows Phone &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) plans to include mobile-payment features in the next version of its Windows Phone operating system, part of an effort to narrow Google Inc. (GOOG)&rsquo;s lead in smartphone software, two people familiar with the plans said.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Stocks-gain-as-confidence-apf-3831165275.html?x=0\">Stocks gain as confidence falls less than feared &#8211; Yahoo! Finance<\/a> &#8211; The fall comes after five straight months of gains, but some economists had expected the decline to be even worse. Goldman Sachs had forecast a drop to 60, believing that high gas prices would pinch spending. The University of Michigan confidence survey also took a steep fall last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for March 30th : Sands China Says Under Investigation by Hong Kong Regulator &#8211; Bloomberg &#8211; Sands China Ltd. (1928), controlled by Sheldon Adelson&rsquo;s casino company, said it&rsquo;s under investigation by Hong Kong&rsquo;s Securities and Futures Commission for alleged breaches of regulations. Hoenig Faults Fed for Higher [&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-12904","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\/12904","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=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}