{"id":14618,"date":"2011-08-09T05:50:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14618\/financial-markets-tumble-as-risk-aversion-rises-to-2-year-high\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T03:50:55","slug":"financial-markets-tumble-as-risk-aversion-rises-to-2-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/14618\/financial-markets-tumble-as-risk-aversion-rises-to-2-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Markets Tumble as Risk Aversion Rises to 2-Year High"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wall Street slumped with DJIA and S&P 500 plummeting -5.55% and -6.66% respectively as recent selloff accelerated after S&P's downgrade of US-linked assets. The volatility index (VIX) jumped to 48, signaling market sentiment has plunged to a 2-year low. Commodities, with the exception of gold, tumbled. The front-month contracts for WTI and Brent crude oil lost -3.26% and -5.15% respectively. Both contracts extended the decline in Asia today with the former at one point diving to 75.71, a level not seen since September 2009, while the latter to 98.74, the lowest level since February 2011.<\/p>\n

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Wall Street slumped with DJIA and S&P 500 plummeting -5.55% and -6.66% respectively as recent selloff accelerated after S&P's downgrade of US-linked assets. The volatility index (VIX) jumped to 48, signaling market sentiment has plunged to a 2-year low. Commodities, with the exception of gold, tumbled. The front-month contracts for WTI and Brent crude oil lost -3.26% and -5.15% respectively. Both contracts extended the decline in Asia today with the former at one point diving to 75.71, a level not seen since September 2009, while the latter to 98.74, the lowest level since February 2011. <\/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-14618","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\/14618","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=14618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}