{"id":673086,"date":"2010-02-23T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:399403"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:19:00","slug":"caseshiller-retailers-smartphones-energy-stocks-%e2%80%93-vialoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673086","title":{"rendered":"Case\/Shiller, retailers, smartphones, energy stocks \u2013 Vialoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 4 points in pre-opening comments. <\/p>\n<p>Index futures were unchanged following release of the December Case\/Shiller home price index. Consensus was a year-over-year decline of 3.1% versus a decline of 5.3% in November for the 20 largest U.S. cities. Actual was a decline of 3.1%. <\/p>\n<p>Several U.S. retail merchandisers reported higher than expected fourth quarter earnings overnight including Home Depot, Target and Macy\u2019s. Home Depot also raised its dividend.<\/p>\n<p>Stifel Nicolaus initiated coverage on the Smart Phone sector. Buy recommendations were given to Research in Motion and Nokia. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. analysts continue to upgrade U.S. energy stocks. Argus upgraded Occidental Petroleum from Hold to Buy with a target price of $95.<\/p>\n<p>Brookfield Asset Management is rumored to be preparing a \u201cwhite knight\u201d bid for General Growth Properties. Simon Properties bid on the company last week. General Growth Properties technically is in bankruptcy protection. <\/p>\n<p>TransCanada reported lower than consensus fourth quarter earnings.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><i>Don Vialoux, chartered market technician, is the author of a free<br \/>\ndaily report on equity markets, sectors, commodities, equities and<br \/>\nExchange-Traded Funds. For more visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timingthemarket.ca\/techtalk\/\" >Don Vialoux&#39;s Web site<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=399403\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&amp;P 500 futures are down 4 points in pre-opening comments. Index futures were unchanged following release of the December Case\/Shiller home price index. Consensus was a year-over-year decline of 3.1% versus a decline of 5.3% in November for the 20 largest U.S. cities. Actual was a decline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}