{"id":14514,"date":"2011-07-27T05:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T03:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14514\/usd-slumps-as-risk-of-downgrade-increases\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T05:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T03:49:44","slug":"usd-slumps-as-risk-of-downgrade-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14514\/usd-slumps-as-risk-of-downgrade-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"USD Slumps as Risk of Downgrade Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little progress in the US was seen as the deadline to raise the debt ceiling approaches. The US dollar was exceptionally weak, plunging to a record low against the Swiss franc as risk of a downgrade escalated. Gold continued its long-term uptrend and ended the day at 1616.8, up +0.28%, amid safe-haven demand. Price climbed to a new all-time high of 1624.5 in Asia today. Oil prices traded with great volatility but small volume, slumping in early US session but then rebounding on weak USD.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ: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=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ: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=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ: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=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=hCxQAuqhtiM:XVPpCJX9UiQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/hCxQAuqhtiM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/hCxQAuqhtiM\/\" title=\"USD Slumps as Risk of Downgrade Increases\">USD Slumps as Risk of Downgrade Increases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little progress in the US was seen as the deadline to raise the debt ceiling approaches. The US dollar was exceptionally weak, plunging to a record low against the Swiss franc as risk of a downgrade escalated. Gold continued its long-term uptrend and ended the day at 1616.8, up +0.28%, amid safe-haven demand. Price climbed to a new all-time high of 1624.5 in Asia today. Oil prices traded with great volatility but small volume, slumping in early US session but then rebounding on weak USD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-14514","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\/14514","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}