{"id":986,"date":"2008-10-04T13:15:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2008-10-04T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T17:15:01","slug":"the-week-ahead-one-stock-the-looks-solid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/the-week-ahead-one-stock-the-looks-solid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: One Stock that Looks Solid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my weekly MSN Money TopStocks article:<\/p>\n<p>Overshadowing the start to earnings season is the continuing slowdown of the world economy. No longer a question of semantics, we are in a general slowdown that has affected virtually every sector. Even with a massive pork-barrel, ear-mark infested $850 billion banking bailout package, job losses coupled with the higher cost of food and fuel has curtailed spending and is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Next week is the official open to &#8220;earnings season&#8221; as Alcoa is slated to report what could be a very weak number as we look at the latest from the materials sector.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a title=\"MSN TopStocks\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2008\/10\/04\/the-week-ahead-one-stock-that-looks-solid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> as there are a few interesting trading ideas explored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my weekly MSN Money TopStocks article: Overshadowing the start to earnings season is the continuing slowdown of the world economy. No longer a question of semantics, we are in a general slowdown that has affected virtually every sector. Even with a massive pork-barrel, ear-mark infested $850 billion banking bailout package, job losses coupled with [&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":[24,220,12],"tags":[487,229],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earnings","category-weekly-gameplan","category-markets","tag-earnings","tag-msn-money","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\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}