{"id":20494,"date":"2017-05-05T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/20494\/commodity-prices-slumped-led-by-oil-and-iron-ore\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T01:43:07","slug":"commodity-prices-slumped-led-by-oil-and-iron-ore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/20494\/commodity-prices-slumped-led-by-oil-and-iron-ore\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodity Prices Slumped, Led by Oil and Iron Ore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commodity prices fell across the board. Starting with the energy sector, persistent increase in US oil output and OPEC's reluctance to deepening output cut weighed on prices. Both crude oil benchmarks have erased all gains made since the announcement of OPEC's deal late last year. The front-month WTI contract initially dived to 45.29, the lowest since November 2016, before settling at 45.52, down -4.81%.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc: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=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?a=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc: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=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc: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=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OngFocus?i=jv1mLikZYCE:3c6NATRHAWc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~4\/jv1mLikZYCE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OngFocus\/~3\/jv1mLikZYCE\/\" title=\"Commodity Prices Slumped, Led by Oil and Iron Ore\">Commodity Prices Slumped, Led by Oil and Iron Ore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodity prices fell across the board. Starting with the energy sector, persistent increase in US oil output and OPEC's reluctance to deepening output cut weighed on prices. Both crude oil benchmarks have erased all gains made since the announcement of OPEC's deal late last year. The front-month WTI contract initially dived to 45.29, the lowest since November 2016, before settling at 45.52, down -4.81%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"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-20494","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\/20494","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\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}