{"id":26639,"date":"2012-01-12T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/16\/whats-in-the-news-january-12-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:45:05","slug":"whats-in-the-news-january-12-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/12\/whats-in-the-news-january-12-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In The News: January 12, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vf03d9e621e1931b6749fe1d38c8882d5a7cb3d3a&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vf03d9e621e1931b6749fe1d38c8882d5a7cb3d3a&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Thursday January 12, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. energy firms are pumping so much natural gas out of the ground that prices are dropping&#8211;down 5.7% yesterday&#8211;and the cheap gas isn&#8217;t likely to end anytime soon. The Wall Street Journal also reports Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which took its Web-search engine out of mainland China two years ago after a censorship fight with Chinese authorities, renewed its drive to expand there. The Wall Street Journal also reports Sears Holdings (NASDAQ:SHLD) suffered a new setback when CIT Group (NYSE:CIT) said it would no longer finance loans to suppliers waiting for payment from the company. Reuters reports GM (NYSE:GM) could move more vehicle production to its European factories in a cost-cutting deal with its German union that could avoid a standoff and keep its Opel unit out of bankruptcy, Reuters reports. Finally, Bloomberg reports generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NASDAQ:TEVA) is seeking acquisitions in Asia to help its sales in the region and expand its product lines, company executives say.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/16\/0_vxgtj8oe_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/16\/0_vxgtj8oe_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Thursday January 12, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. energy firms are pumping so much natural gas out of the ground that prices are dropping&#8211;down 5.7% yesterday&#8211;and the cheap gas isn&#8217;t likely to end anytime soon. The Wall Street Journal also reports Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), which took its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/12\/whats-in-the-news-january-12-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s In The News: January 12, 2012&#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-26639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26639","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=26639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}