{"id":14493,"date":"2011-07-25T06:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14493\/cautious-trading-with-concerns-over-us-downgrade\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T06:07:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:07:26","slug":"cautious-trading-with-concerns-over-us-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14493\/cautious-trading-with-concerns-over-us-downgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cautious Trading with Concerns over US Downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets opened the week with great concerns that the US might not reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling by the August 2 deadline. The US dollar weakened against the Swiss franc, a clear signal of demand for safe-haven. In the commodity sector, oil dropped with WTI crude oil for September delivery falling to as low as 98.74 from Friday's close of 99.87 while Brent crude oil for September delivery dipping below 118 after settling at 118.67 last week. Gold rallied to a new record high of 1624.4 in Asia today as USD declined and investors fled to safe assets.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=6kga6ulJxno:_3fOiyaW5Ck:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/6kga6ulJxno\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/6kga6ulJxno\/\" title=\"Cautious Trading with Concerns over US Downgrade\">Cautious Trading with Concerns over US Downgrade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets opened the week with great concerns that the US might not reach an agreement on raising the debt ceiling by the August 2 deadline. The US dollar weakened against the Swiss franc, a clear signal of demand for safe-haven. In the commodity sector, oil dropped with WTI crude oil for September delivery falling to as low as 98.74 from Friday's close of 99.87 while Brent crude oil for September delivery dipping below 118 after settling at 118.67 last week. Gold rallied to a new record high of 1624.4 in Asia today as USD declined and investors fled to safe assets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}