{"id":15923,"date":"2012-03-21T03:48:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15923\/china-worries-dragged-down-financial-markets\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T03:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T02:48:45","slug":"china-worries-dragged-down-financial-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/15923\/china-worries-dragged-down-financial-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"China Worries Dragged Down Financial Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets were pressured by demand concerns in China with BHP Billiton mentioning that iron ore demand in China has flattened and China Association of Automobile Manufacturers official suggesting that the country may miss vehicle sales forecasts this year. Wall Street slipped. Despite a late recovery after firm US housing permit data, the DJIA and the S&#038;P lost -0.52% and -0.30% respectively. In the commodity sector, the front-month contract for WTI crude oil, plunging for the first time in 3 days, lost -1.87% to settle at 106.07, while the equivalent Brent crude contract dropped -1.26%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE: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=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE: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=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE: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=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=nc1VI4GhqK8:WVdwoRiqKzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/nc1VI4GhqK8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/nc1VI4GhqK8\/\" title=\"China Worries Dragged Down Financial Markets\">China Worries Dragged Down Financial Markets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets were pressured by demand concerns in China with BHP Billiton mentioning that iron ore demand in China has flattened and China Association of Automobile Manufacturers official suggesting that the country may miss vehicle sales forecasts this year. Wall Street slipped. Despite a late recovery after firm US housing permit data, the DJIA and the S&#038;P lost -0.52% and -0.30% respectively. In the commodity sector, the front-month contract for WTI crude oil, plunging for the first time in 3 days, lost -1.87% to settle at 106.07, while the equivalent Brent crude contract dropped -1.26%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15923","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\/15923","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}