{"id":20373,"date":"2011-03-28T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:10:47","slug":"whats-in-the-news-march-28-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/28\/whats-in-the-news-march-28-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In The News: March 28, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports NASDAQ OMX (NDAQ) and  IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) remain in discussions for a possible  joint bid for NYSE Euronext (NYX), but hurdles are yet to be overcome  including what price to offer&#8230;WSJ also reporting Google (GOOG),  MasterCard (MA) and Citigroup (C) are teaming up to embed mobile payment  technology in Android mobile devices that would allow consumers to pass  their smartphones in front of a reader to make a purchase&#8230;The Detroit  News is reporting that, due to reports that faulty side front windows  have shattered, Honda (HMC) issued its second recall in the last week  for the 2011 Odyssey minivan&#8230;Bloomberg reports that, in an effort to  reduce debt, roller bearings maker Schaeffler Group is selling $2.5B  worth of Continental AG (CTTAY) shares&#8230;Finally, Reuters reports Roche  (RHHBY) won&#8217;t be up for sale and one investor&#8217;s exit from the group&#8217;s  controlling shareholder pact doesn&#8217;t mean the family is running away  from the Swiss drugmaker. Roche Vice Chairman Andre Hoffmann, also  spokesman for the family group, says the shareholders would continue to  protect Roche&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports NASDAQ OMX (NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) remain in discussions for a possible joint bid for NYSE Euronext (NYX), but hurdles are yet to be overcome including what price to offer&#8230;<\/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-20373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373","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=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}