{"id":15575,"date":"2012-01-04T06:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15575\/commodities-rally-amid-irans-retaliation-on-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T06:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T05:02:51","slug":"commodities-rally-amid-irans-retaliation-on-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15575\/commodities-rally-amid-irans-retaliation-on-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities Rally amid Iran's Retaliation on Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commodities rallied as driven by strong US economic data and escalated tensions between Iran and the West. The front-month contract for WTI crude oil jumped to 103.16, the highest level since May 2011, before settling at 102.96, up +4.18%. The equivalent Brent crude contract also soared +4.42% to end the day a 112.13. Gold rose further as the US dollar weakened and geopolitical tensions intensified. The benchmark Comex contract climbed to a 4-day high of 1608.7 before closing at 1600.5, up +2.15%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo: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=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo: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=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo: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=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=esQaCa8pV0o:6P3cdznd4Qo:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/esQaCa8pV0o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:\u00a0<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/esQaCa8pV0o\/\" title=\"Commodities Rally amid Iran's Retaliation on Sanctions\">Commodities Rally amid Iran's Retaliation on Sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodities rallied as driven by strong US economic data and escalated tensions between Iran and the West. The front-month contract for WTI crude oil jumped to 103.16, the highest level since May 2011, before settling at 102.96, up +4.18%. The equivalent Brent crude contract also soared +4.42% to end the day a 112.13. Gold rose further as the US dollar weakened and geopolitical tensions intensified. The benchmark Comex contract climbed to a 4-day high of 1608.7 before closing at 1600.5, up +2.15%. <\/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-15575","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\/15575","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=15575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}