{"id":6223,"date":"2010-02-08T00:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2010-02-08T00:29:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:29:17","slug":"oil-prices-fall-sharply-as-stock-market-sells-off-%c2%ab-oilprice-%c2%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/6223\/oil-prices-fall-sharply-as-stock-market-sells-off-%c2%ab-oilprice-%c2%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Prices Fall Sharply As Stock Market Sells Off \u00ab OilPrice \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After starting the week on a firmer note, oil prices fell<br \/>\nsharply toward the end of the week in a general market sell-off as<br \/>\ninvestors sought the dollar as a safe haven amid worries about<br \/>\nEuropean Union economies.<\/p>\n<p>Debt problems that have plagued Greece are now spreading to<br \/>\nPortugal and Spain, driving the euro down temporarily below $1.36<br \/>\nand bringing the dollar to an 8-month high. Because oil and other<br \/>\ncommodities are priced in dollars, gains in the U.S. currency<br \/>\nusually translate \u2026 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymarkets.com\/stocks\/2010\/02\/07\/oil-prices-fall-sharply-as-stock-market-sells-off\/\">visit<br \/>\nsite to read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GraceCheng\/~4\/ERY4oYXWQks\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SecretsoftraderscomMasterFeed\/~4\/ERY4oYXWQks\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After starting the week on a firmer note, oil prices fell sharply toward the end of the week in a general market sell-off as investors sought the dollar as a safe haven amid worries about European Union economies. Debt problems that have plagued Greece are now spreading to Portugal and Spain, driving the euro down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6223","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\/6223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}