{"id":20386,"date":"2011-03-29T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2011-03-29T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:35:31","slug":"whats-in-the-news-march-29-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/29\/whats-in-the-news-march-29-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In The News: March 29, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Tuesday, March 29th. Bloomberg\u00a0reports  that traders are betting that\u00a0Infor\u00a0and Golden Gate Capital&#8217;s $1.8B  takeover for\u00a0Lawson Software\u00a0(LWSN)\u00a0will be topped by a higher offer,  likely from\u00a0Oracle\u00a0(ORCL)&#8230; Reuters reports that Rio\u00a0Tinto\u00a0(RIO)\u00a0said  it would go ahead with its $4B takeover offer for\u00a0Riversdale\u00a0Mining even  if it ends up with a minority stake&#8230; the Financial Times reports that  Wal-Mart\u00a0(WMT)\u00a0is set to defend itself at the Supreme Court in the  world\u2019s largest sex discrimination case, which has the potential to  transform the future course of legal disputes between big business and  U.S. workers,\u00a0\u2026and finally, the Wall Street Journal reports that  shipments of\u00a0Lenovo&#8217;s\u00a0(LNVGY)\u00a0new\u00a0LePad\u00a0tablet could be affected by  tight supply of memory chips following Japan&#8217;s earthquake and tsunami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Tuesday, March 29th. Bloomberg reports that traders are betting that Infor and Golden Gate Capital&#8217;s $1.8B takeover for Lawson Software (LWSN) will be topped by a higher offer, likely from Oracle (ORCL)&#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-20386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386","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=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}