{"id":18939,"date":"2011-02-01T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=18939"},"modified":"2011-02-01T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:05:04","slug":"morning-market-snapshot-february-1st-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/01\/morning-market-snapshot-february-1st-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Market Snapshot: February 1st, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning. It&#8217;s Tuesday, February 1, 2011. At this hour, U.S. equity  futures are higher. Overseas, the Asian markets advanced, while the  European markets are up. BP\u00a0(BP)\u00a0resumes quarterly dividend, to pay 7c a  share for Q4.\u00a0BP\u00a0announces intention to divest two U.S.  refineries.\u00a0BP\u00a0plans to increase significantly its investment in  exploration. \u00a0BP\u00a0announces plans to reshape U.S. downstream  business.\u00a0BP\u00a0says on track to meet $30B of\u00a0divestments\u00a0target by end of  2011&#8230;Prudential Financial\u00a0(PRU)\u00a0announced that the company completed  its acquisition of\u00a0AIG\u00a0Star Life Insurance Co., Ltd. and\u00a0AIG\u00a0Edison Life  Insurance Co. in Japan from\u00a0AIG\u00a0(AIG)\u00a0for about  $4.8B&#8230;Corning\u00a0(GLW)\u00a0to  acquire\u00a0MobileAccess&#8230;Cavium\u00a0Networks\u00a0(CAVM)\u00a0to acquire Celestial  Semiconductor&#8230;\u00a0Alaska Airlines\u00a0(ALK)\u00a0employees ratify three-year  contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning. It&#8217;s Tuesday, February 1, 2011. At this hour, U.S. equity futures are higher. Overseas, the Asian markets advanced, while the European markets are up. BP\u00a0(BP)\u00a0resumes quarterly dividend, to pay 7c a share for Q4.\u00a0BP\u00a0announces intention to divest two U.S. refineries.\u00a0BP\u00a0plans to increase significantly its investment in exploration. \u00a0BP\u00a0announces plans to reshape U.S. downstream &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/01\/morning-market-snapshot-february-1st-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morning Market Snapshot: February 1st, 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}