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Commodity prices gained as Ukraine tensions escalated with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, stating that the Ukraine “is as close to a civil war as you can get”. Investors were concerned that the crisis would disrupt oil supply to a number of European countries. The front-month contract for WTI crude oil rose for a third consecutive day and settled at 102.37, up +0.66%, while the Brent crude contract soared to as high as 110.41 before ending the day at 110.19, up +0.87%. Gold also firmed on safe-haven demand with the benchmark Comex contract rising 1309.2 before settling at 1305.9, up +0.86%.<\/p>\n

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Commodity prices gained as Ukraine tensions escalated with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, stating that the Ukraine “is as close to a civil war as you can get”. Investors were concerned that the crisis would disrupt oil supply to a number of European countries. The front-month contract for WTI crude oil rose for a third consecutive day and settled at 102.37, up +0.66%, while the Brent crude contract soared to as high as 110.41 before ending the day at 110.19, up +0.87%. Gold also firmed on safe-haven demand with the benchmark Comex contract rising 1309.2 before settling at 1305.9, up +0.86%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18300","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\/18300","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}