{"id":1931,"date":"2011-04-19T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:32:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:32:58","slug":"afraid-of-being-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/afraid-of-being-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of Being Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sp.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1932\" title=\"s&amp;p\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Wall Street flounders as the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s credit outlook for  the U.S. is reduced from \u201cstable\u201d to \u201cnegative\u201d for its \u201cAAA\u201d rating and  the CBOE MKT Volatility Index (VIX) jumpes over 20%.<br \/>\nThe news isn\u2019t that the rating is so low or the VIX so high, but rather,  the trend they represent. S&amp;P based its rating change on the U.S.  deficit and the stalled political debate surrounding it. The fiscal  situation will likely remain unresolved until after the 2012 elections  and companies reported less then predicted earnings last week.<br \/>\nWith the Dow down triple digits at the start of the week, and financial  reports of companies such as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Yahoo  due this week, investors will be anxiously watching to decide which way  to jump. If companies continue to deliver less then their expected  profits, prior to the long Easter weekend, a stock dump may result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street flounders as the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s credit outlook for the U.S. is reduced from \u201cstable\u201d to \u201cnegative\u201d for its \u201cAAA\u201d rating and the CBOE MKT Volatility Index (VIX) jumpes over 20%. The news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[1076,1078,1079,1077,1075,1080],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-featured-news","tag-credit","tag-earnings-less","tag-easter","tag-reduced","tag-sp","tag-stock-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}