{"id":9248,"date":"2010-05-08T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T23:00:01","slug":"links-for-may-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/links-for-may-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for May 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 8th :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=adsqG0zVgY6E&amp;pos=3\">Payrolls in U.S. Rise by Most in Four Years; Jobless Rate Climbs to 9.9%<\/a> &#8211; Good and bad&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a57PDFx1o3cU&amp;pos=9\">Volcanic Ash Cloud Drifting Over Spain, Portugal, Irish Air Authority Says<\/a> &#8211; This is starting to get out of hand&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aP2ZrjaBp7a4&amp;pos=4\">BP&#8217;s Oil-Capture Chamber Clogs, Forcing Removal From Leaking Gulf Well<\/a> &#8211; Yikes. Not good&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2010\/05\/08\/business\/business-us-harrods.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Qatar Holding Buys Harrods Department Store<\/a> &#8211; There it goes&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thedisciplinedinvestor\/EBHR\/~3\/auF75J_rCOE\/\">Who is Buying All The Gold (GLD)?<\/a> &#8211; China and India<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/deal-reached-to-drop-50-bln-bank-fund-from-reform-2010-05-05\">Deal reached to drop $50 bln bank fund from reform &#8211; MarketWatch<\/a> &#8211; Senate lawmakers on Wednesday voted to drop a controversial provision in broad bank reform legislation that would have created a $50 billion fund to help dismantle a large financial institution so that its collapse does not cause collateral damage to the markets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=azbATIG9xpNE&amp;pos=9\">Schwarzenegger Drops Offshore-Drilling Support After Gulf of Mexico Spill<\/a> &#8211; So short sighted&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aYCESq6GoMNA&amp;pos=1\">Greece Agrees to EU, IMF Bailout as Papandreou Sees `Big Sacrifices&#8217; Ahead<\/a> &#8211; Now the economy will not be able to recover at all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for May 8th : Payrolls in U.S. Rise by Most in Four Years; Jobless Rate Climbs to 9.9% &#8211; Good and bad&#8230;. Volcanic Ash Cloud Drifting Over Spain, Portugal, Irish Air Authority Says &#8211; This is starting to get out of hand&#8230;. BP&#8217;s Oil-Capture Chamber Clogs, Forcing [&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-9248","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\/9248","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=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}