{"id":29,"date":"2007-02-20T20:28:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-02-20T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T20:28:55","slug":"weak-housing-market-hits-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/02\/20\/weak-housing-market-hits-home-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak housing market hits Home Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mwprices.ft.com\/custom\/ft2-com\/html-quotechartnews.asp?FTSite=FTCOM&#038;q=HD&#038;searchtype&#038;expanded=&#038;countrycode=us&#038;s2=us&#038;symb=HD&#038;company=NEW\"><font color=\"#003399\">Home Depot <\/font><\/a><\/strong>on Tuesday reported a 28 per cent decline in fourth-quarter net profits, as weakness in the US housing market depressed spending on home improvement projects.<\/p>\n<p>The results exposed the challenge faced by Frank Blake, Home Depot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new chief executive, as he attempts to restore growth to the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest do-it-yourself retailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Depot on Tuesday reported a 28 per cent decline in fourth-quarter net profits, as weakness in the US housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}