{"id":28952,"date":"2012-04-23T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28952"},"modified":"2012-04-23T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:50:34","slug":"whats-in-the-news-april-20-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/23\/whats-in-the-news-april-20-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In The News: April 20, 2012"},"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=v65b6f2f3383939d5a3df42c002776f515822b1f2&#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=v65b6f2f3383939d5a3df42c002776f515822b1f2&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Friday, April 20, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports Ford (NYSE:F) says it would build its fifth car factory in eastern China as part of a plan to double its production capacity and sales outlets in the country by 2015, a $5B bet overall on a challenging market. Reuters reports Dupont (NYSE:DD), Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW), and other chemical firms are working with automakers after a German chemical plant explosion cut a significant supply of a nylon resin used in brake and fuel systems. Reuters also reports French financier Vincent Bollore could raise his stake in Vivendi (PINK:VIVHY) to 5%, becoming the group&#8217;s largest shareholder, and possibly take a seat on its board, says newspaper Le Figaro. Finally Bloomberg reports GE (NYSE:GE) is seeking $6B in contracts in Australia by the end of the decade as it taps the country&#8221;s growing role as a supplier of LNG, iron ore and wind power.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/23\/1_jriv0zbl_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/23\/1_jriv0zbl_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what&#8217;s in the news for Friday, April 20, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports Ford (NYSE:F) says it would build its fifth car factory in eastern China as part of a plan to double its production capacity and sales outlets in the country by 2015, a $5B bet overall on a challenging market. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/23\/whats-in-the-news-april-20-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s In The News: April 20, 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-28952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952","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=28952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}