{"id":247866,"date":"2016-09-13T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247866"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:16:10","slug":"samsung-shares-slide-on-galaxy-note-7-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247866","title":{"rendered":"Samsung shares slide on Galaxy Note 7 recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Samsung shares fell sharply on Monday, hitting a two-month low after the firm urged users not to use its flagship Note 7 phone and exchange the device due to fears it might catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean company&#8217;s shares dropped more than 6% on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung recalled 2.5 million phones last week after reports of the device exploding during or after charging.<\/p>\n<p>Airline passengers were warned by US authorities not to use or charge the phones while on board.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation authorities in several other countries and individual airlines have since then also banned the use of the devices on their flights.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/13BDB\/production\/_90995808_burntnotearielgonzalez.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Note 7\" width=\"503\" height=\"283\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"media-caption__text\">A Galaxy Note 7 reportedly caught fire shortly after its charger was unplugged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company had already said it would replace all devices that customers would hand in.<\/p>\n<p>According to Samsung, battery problems were behind the phones catching fire, but the firm said it was difficult to work out which phones were affected among those sold.<\/p>\n<p>The phone was launched last month and has been otherwise generally well-received by consumers and critics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung shares fell sharply on Monday, hitting a two-month low after the firm urged users not to use its flagship Note 7 phone and exchange the device due to fears it might catch fire. The South Korean company&#8217;s shares dropped more than 6% on Monday. Samsung recalled 2.5 million phones last week after reports of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":247870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}