{"id":1273,"date":"2008-07-06T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xbizx.com\/index.php\/1273\/on-london-bears-are-out-but-it-s-no-picnic-financial-times\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T16:35:22","slug":"on-london-bears-are-out-but-it-s-no-picnic-financial-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1273\/on-london-bears-are-out-but-it-s-no-picnic-financial-times\/","title":{"rendered":"On London: Bears are out but it   s no picnic &#8211; Financial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/05dfa272-49e7-11dd-891a-000077b07658.html'>On London: Bears are out but it   s no picnic &#8211; Financial Times<\/a><br \/>When the FTSE 100 dipped into bear market territory on Thursday, the talking heads on the business news channels were in no doubt as to why. Britain was heading for a recession, they said, pointing to the recent profits warning from Marks and Spencer   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/04\/gm-may-sell-40-mpg-mini-c_n_110919.html'>Read More: Chevrolet Beat , General Motors , Gm , Business News &#8211; Huffingtonpost.com<\/a><br \/>General Motors Corp., which popularized the 7,800-pound Hummer, may begin selling a mini-car more than a foot shorter than anything else it markets in the U.S. to win back buyers deterred by record fuel prices. GM may bring the production version of   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/03\/business\/smallbusiness\/03hunt.html?em&#038;ex=1215403200&#038;en=d79d97a0d28a69bf&#038;ei=5087 '>Early Retirees in New Ventures, Mostly for Fun &#8211; New York Times<\/a><br \/>Not the hard-driving type who makes the business news pages. Rather, the laid-back, come-what-may variety. Many of them are part of the first wave of America   s 76 million baby boomers who are taking early retirement and turning their hobbies into   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On London: Bears are out but it s no picnic &#8211; Financial TimesWhen the FTSE 100 dipped into bear market territory on Thursday, the talking heads on the business news channels were in no doubt as to why. Britain was heading for a recession, they said, pointing to the recent profits warning from Marks and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1273\/on-london-bears-are-out-but-it-s-no-picnic-financial-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On London: Bears are out but it   s no picnic &#8211; Financial Times<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}