{"id":35338,"date":"2012-10-27T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_u-s-_companies_europe_brings_tears\/"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T20:45:16","slug":"for_u-s-_companies_europe_brings_tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35338","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) For U.S. Companies, Europe Brings Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s economic woes are washing over U.S. multinational companies, contributing to a season of weak corporate earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic sales are growing, as the U.S. housing market and consumer confidence recover. But China&#8217;s economy has slowed, robbing U.S. companies of their most reliable growth engine of recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Almost uniformly, however, U.S. companies reporting third-quarter results identify Europe as the weakest link in the global economic chain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204530504578076771035763116.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s economic woes are washing over U.S. multinational companies, contributing to a season of weak corporate earnings. Domestic sales are growing, as the U.S. housing market and consumer confidence recover. But China&#8217;s economy has slowed, robbing U.S. companies of their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35338\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,460,209,582,589,149,591,200,590,119,585,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-globalization","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}