{"id":20311,"date":"2016-12-28T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/20311\/commodities-firmed-after-holiday-japanese-yen-weakened-as-data-disappointed\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T05:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:23:44","slug":"commodities-firmed-after-holiday-japanese-yen-weakened-as-data-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/20311\/commodities-firmed-after-holiday-japanese-yen-weakened-as-data-disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities Firmed after Holiday; Japanese Yen Weakened as Data Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices remained firm as the markets reopened after holiday. The front-month WTI crude oil rose for a 7th consecutive day, gaining +1.66% on Tuesday and +5.77% over the past week, and settled at 53.9, the highest close since July 2015. The Brent crude contract also gained +1.69% to settle at 56.06 for the day. Precious metals also climbed higher as US dollar consolidated. The benchmark Comex gold contract added +0.48% while silver rose +1.43%. For PGMs, the Nymex platinum and palladium contracts was up +1.22% and +2.89% respectively.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk: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=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk: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=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk: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=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=5N4lr_CYvc4:cSWdEpQVgFk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/5N4lr_CYvc4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/5N4lr_CYvc4\/\" title=\"Commodities Firmed after Holiday; Japanese Yen Weakened as Data Disappointed\">Commodities Firmed after Holiday; Japanese Yen Weakened as Data Disappointed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil prices remained firm as the markets reopened after holiday. The front-month WTI crude oil rose for a 7th consecutive day, gaining +1.66% on Tuesday and +5.77% over the past week, and settled at 53.9, the highest close since July 2015. The Brent crude contract also gained +1.69% to settle at 56.06 for the day. Precious metals also climbed higher as US dollar consolidated. The benchmark Comex gold contract added +0.48% while silver rose +1.43%. For PGMs, the Nymex platinum and palladium contracts was up +1.22% and +2.89% respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"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-20311","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\/20311","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}