{"id":8020,"date":"2010-02-18T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2010-02-18T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:00:02","slug":"links-for-february-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/links-for-february-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for February 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for February 18th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=akPwp2QBc0VY&amp;pos=7\">AvalonBay Ramps Up New Apartments in Bet Job Growth Eliminates Rental Glut<\/a> &#8211; Stupid is as stupid does<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Yahoo-Microsoft-to-begin-apf-1194760518.html?x=0\">Yahoo, Microsoft to begin their Web ad partnership (AP)<\/a> &#8211; Great, now we are just waiting for the announcement of the ending of that relationship when all figure out that it is not working.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/rss\/story\/*http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/WalMart-profit-rises-22-apf-1603052967.html?x=0\">Wal-Mart profit rises 22 percent for 4Q (AP)<\/a> &#8211; But misses EPS &#8211; Nice headline!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/enf\/rss.asp?guid={6524596D-7444-465B-980B-C653423D6A1A}&amp;siteid=rss&amp;rss=1\">Sands loss narrows on cost cuts, Macau strength<\/a> &#8211; Say it how it is meant to be said&#8230;.. A LOSER!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35434118\/ns\/business-autos\/\">Toyota Corolla hit with power steering complaints<\/a> &#8211; This is getting out of control&#8230;.(pun anyone?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069321056720944.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection\">Economics Take Fore in U.S.-China Tensions &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; The mounting political tension between U.S. and China is poised to take on a more pronounced economic component&mdash;with Washington, in coming months, expected to press China over what officials see as an undervalued yuan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703444804575071522969658634.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">Burger King to Raise Burger Price<\/a> &#8211; First coffee and now raising prices&#8230;. something is wrong with the King&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for February 18th : AvalonBay Ramps Up New Apartments in Bet Job Growth Eliminates Rental Glut &#8211; Stupid is as stupid does Yahoo, Microsoft to begin their Web ad partnership (AP) &#8211; Great, now we are just waiting for the announcement of the ending of that relationship [&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-8020","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\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}