{"id":15828,"date":"2012-02-29T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15828\/awaiting-ecb-ltro\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T10:33:00","slug":"awaiting-ecb-ltro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15828\/awaiting-ecb-ltro\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting ECB LTRO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Focus on financial markets today is on the ECB's LTRO, with an expected gross drawdown of about 500B euro. Concerning stock market performance, Wall Street gained with the DJIA breached 13000 for the first time since May 2008 while the S&P 500 closed above its May 2011 high of 1370. Crude oil prices retreated further from multi-month highs with the prompt month contract of WTI crude oil slipping to a 3-day low of 106.30 before settling at 106.55, down -1.85%, while the equivalent Brent crude contract fell to a 4-day low of 121.5 before ending the day at 121.50, down -2.11%. Gold, as driven by euro's strength soared for the first time in 3 days with the benchmark Comex contract rising to 1792.7, the highest level since November last year, before closing at 1788.4, up +0.76%.<\/p>\n

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Focus on financial markets today is on the ECB's LTRO, with an expected gross drawdown of about 500B euro. Concerning stock market performance, Wall Street gained with the DJIA breached 13000 for the first time since May 2008 while the S&P 500 closed above its May 2011 high of 1370. Crude oil prices retreated further from multi-month highs with the prompt month contract of WTI crude oil slipping to a 3-day low of 106.30 before settling at 106.55, down -1.85%, while the equivalent Brent crude contract fell to a 4-day low of 121.5 before ending the day at 121.50, down -2.11%. Gold, as driven by euro's strength soared for the first time in 3 days with the benchmark Comex contract rising to 1792.7, the highest level since November last year, before closing at 1788.4, up +0.76%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-15828","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\/15828","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}