{"id":28436,"date":"2012-03-21T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:18:28","slug":"caterpillar-shares-fall-after-announcing-poor-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/21\/caterpillar-shares-fall-after-announcing-poor-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Shares Fall After Announcing Poor Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v35acda45e4f5a7e1414162d9f9f730f05bbae78c&#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=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v35acda45e4f5a7e1414162d9f9f730f05bbae78c&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) shares fell over 2% in midday trading on Tuesday after the company announced sales of its retail machines slowed in the past months.In January, sales were up 47% then fell to 39% by mid-February even in Asia where sales fell to 20% in February.Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) has potential upside of 17.3% based on a current price of $110.89 and an average consensus analyst price target of $130.11.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/21\/1_ldojxiyx_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/21\/1_ldojxiyx_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) shares fell over 2% in midday trading on Tuesday after the company announced sales of its retail machines slowed in the past months.In January, sales were up 47% then fell to 39% by mid-February even in Asia where sales fell to 20% in February.Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) has potential upside of 17.3% based on a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/21\/caterpillar-shares-fall-after-announcing-poor-sales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caterpillar Shares Fall After Announcing Poor Sales&#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-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","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=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}