{"id":6894,"date":"2009-12-29T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2009-12-29T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T18:00:03","slug":"links-for-december-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/links-for-december-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for December 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for December 29th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126209005909708831.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEADNewsCollection\">U.S. Home-Price Declines Slowed in October &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; The indexes showed prices in 10 major metropolitan areas fell 6.4% in October from a year earlier, while in 20 major metropolitan areas, home prices dropped 7.3% on the year. However, both indexes were flat in October compared with the previous month.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126204917965408363.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTWhatsNews\">The Man Who Wired Silicon Valley<\/a> &#8211; How many are involved and to what extent?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=awbEKZat9b3k&amp;pos=8\">China Executes British Drug Smuggler, Ignoring Brown&#8217;s Appeal for Clemency<\/a> &#8211; What do we think of this?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aeByrayLjqdA&amp;pos=6\">Biggs, Faber Unite in Predicting Dollar Rally<\/a> &#8211; Interesting as this is very contrary, but if you think about it, mke sense. Almost a catch-22<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a6OSadlaD8vw&amp;pos=1\">U.S. Consumer Sentiment Gains in Signal Economy Will Expand Into Next Year<\/a> &#8211; Good, not  much as expected, but nice<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=afBo5UlKEsA8&amp;pos=5\">Goldman Sachs Seeks Regulatory Clearance to Create Exchange-Traded Funds<\/a> &#8211; Watch out!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aA0C0QWJPd1A&amp;pos=4\">Mortgage Rates Climb to 5.05% for 30-Year Loans, Highest in Three Months<\/a> &#8211; That should slow down the housing progress in its tracks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/finhome\/topstories\/apf\/*http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/091224\/us_mortgage_giants_ceos.html\">Fannie and Freddie CEOs to get up to $6M in pay (AP)<\/a> &#8211; So much for pay caps&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for December 29th : U.S. Home-Price Declines Slowed in October &#8211; WSJ.com &#8211; The indexes showed prices in 10 major metropolitan areas fell 6.4% in October from a year earlier, while in 20 major metropolitan areas, home prices dropped 7.3% on the year. However, both indexes were [&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-6894","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\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}