{"id":13203,"date":"2011-05-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/links-for-april-30th-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T20:00:00","slug":"links-for-may-1st-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/links-for-may-1st-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for May 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 1st :<\/p>\n<ul>\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:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703655404576292731918057082.html\">Caterpillar&#8217;s Profit Soars on Mining Equipment Sales &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Caterpillar Inc. posted a first-quarter profit that was more than five times the depressed year-earlier result and raised its 2011 outlook on surging global demand for its mining equipment and a budding U.S. recovery for its construction machinery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703655404576292731918057082.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">Caterpillar&#8217;s Profit Soars on Mining Equipment Sales &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Caterpillar Inc. posted a first-quarter profit that was more than five times the depressed year-earlier result and raised its 2011 outlook on surging global demand for its mining equipment and a budding U.S. recovery for its construction machinery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704463804576291051918482080.html\">NFL Draft Live Blog and Twitter Dashboard &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; Follow the NFL draft with live updates from Wall Street Journal reporters and analysis via Twitter of NFL and college football reporters from around the country.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/stockstowatchtoday\/2011\/04\/29\/stem-cell-ban-overturned-stemcells-stock-jumps\/\">Stem Cell Ban Overturned; StemCells Stock Jumps &#8211; Stocks To Watch Today &#8211; Barrons.com<\/a> &#8211; The federal government can pay for research using human embryonic stem cells, an appeals court ruled today. A Washington DC district judge had issues an injunction halting the funding in 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424052970203579804576285033808835662.html\">Do Bulls Need More Encouragement? &#8211; Barrons.com<\/a> &#8211; A couple of years ago, as the markets were trying to shake out the cobwebs of the recession and financial crisis, there was a chart in wide circulation that kept a lot of folks out of stocks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/silver-fever-is-about-to-break-and-break-badly-2011-04-29?link=MW_story_popular\">Silver fever is about to break, and break badly Howard Gold&#8217;s No-Nonsense Investing &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; On Monday, silver closed near $50 an ounce, just below where it stood when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the market back in 1980 (although it&rsquo;s way below that record when prices are adjusted for inflation). On Thursday, it briefly touched a record high at $49.52 an ounce before falling back. Gold extends record run, silver gains 3.4%.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/2011-infiniti-m56-luxury-outside-the-german-box-2011-04-30\">2011 Infiniti M56: Luxury outside the German box Car Review &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; DAMASCUS, Md. (MarketWatch) &mdash; If you have $70,000 sitting in the bank, would you want a car that is mainstream rich, such as a BMW 5-series, or a Mercedes-Benz E-class?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/30\/us-greece-debt-restructuring-idUSTRE73T11K20110430?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 government experts see Greece restructuring debt | Reuters<\/a> &#8211; (Reuters) &#8211; Two German government advisers see a debt restructuring by Greece as inevitable while two of the overborrowed country&#039;s ministers continued to rule it out in newspaper interviews on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-30\/berkshire-net-tumbles-more-than-half-to-1-51-billion-on-catastrophe-costs.html\">Berkshire Net Tumbles More Than 50% to $1.51 Billion on Catastrophe Costs &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; Warren Buffett&rsquo;s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said first-quarter profit fell 58 percent as catastrophes led by Japan&rsquo;s earthquake last month caused an underwriting loss at the company&rsquo;s insurance units.&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\nNet income dropped to $1.51 billion from $3.63 billion the same period last year, Berkshire said today in a statement. Natural-disaster losses exceeded $1.6 billion. Operating earnings declined 28 percent to $1.59 billion from $2.22 billion. Buffett, 80, is Berkshire&rsquo;s chairman, chief executive officer and largest shareholder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-30\/sokol-s-purchase-of-lubrizol-shares-broke-berkshire-s-rules-buffett-says.html\">Buffett Faults Sokol, Takes Blame for Not Pressing Him on Trades &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a> &#8211; David Sokol broke Berkshire Hathaway Inc.&rsquo;s ethics rules by investing in a company as he pushed for its takeover, according to Chairman Warren Buffett, who said he regrets not pressing Sokol earlier for details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 1st : 500 Internal Server Error &#8211; 500 Internal Server Error Caterpillar&#8217;s Profit Soars on Mining Equipment Sales &#8211; WSJ.com &#8211; Caterpillar Inc. posted a first-quarter profit that was more than five times the depressed year-earlier result and raised its 2011 outlook on surging global [&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-13203","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\/13203","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=13203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}