{"id":7379,"date":"2010-01-26T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=7379"},"modified":"2010-01-26T21:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:00:02","slug":"links-for-january-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/links-for-january-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for January 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 26th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aM8B2sun4R1o&amp;pos=6\">Freddie Mac May Consider Financing Stuytown Purchase<\/a> &#8211; Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Freddie Mac, the U.S.-backed mortgage buyer that is a creditor of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, would consider providing financing to an eventual buyer of the Manhattan apartment complex, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/XD3r566uerU\/idUSTRE60P6OO20100126\">Berkshire Hathaway to join S&amp;P 500, shares soar<\/a> &#8211; Nice move that 30 to 1 reverse split<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a1JbSHjvBCpw\">Bernanke Rounds Up Senate Confirmation Votes With Phone Calls<\/a> &#8211; Forty-nine senators have said they would vote for the 56- year-old Fed chief or were inclined to support him, while 20 were opposed. Republicans were split 13-13 on a second term for Bernanke, while Democrats favored the Fed chief by a 35-6 margin, according to a count by Bloomberg News. Thirty-one senators were undecided or declined to comment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aEAskJei1nkU&amp;pos=4\">S&amp;P, Moody&rsquo;s Win Dismissal of Claims in Mortgage Suit<\/a> &#8211; Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s and Moody&rsquo;s Corp. won dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for defrauding investors who bought about $100 billion of mortgage- backed securities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/geithner-thrown-under-the-bus-but-goldman-job-awaits\/\">Geithner &ndash; Thrown Under the Bus (But Goldman Job Awaits)<\/a> &#8211; Can Geithner be the fall guy for the Mass upset?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2010\/01\/25\/business\/AP-AS-SKorea-Economy.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">South Korea&rsquo;s Economic Growth Slowed in Quarter<\/a> &#8211; Not Encouraging<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/LtdWEq5AKfI\/idUSTRE60O5JR20100125\">Amgen 2010 forecast shows potential upside<\/a> &#8211; Not so fast, they missed considerably fellas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35058162\/ns\/business-real_estate\/\">Home sales plunge; worst dip in 40 years<\/a> &#8211; Nasty&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for January 26th : Freddie Mac May Consider Financing Stuytown Purchase &#8211; Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Freddie Mac, the U.S.-backed mortgage buyer that is a creditor of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, would consider providing financing to an eventual buyer of the Manhattan apartment complex, according to a [&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-7379","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\/7379","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=7379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}