{"id":19145,"date":"2012-05-30T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=19145"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:26:08","slug":"commodities-not-having-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/commodities-not-having-a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities &#8211; Not Having a Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the USD spiking as the Euro is trashed, commodities are not too happy. Crude is trading below $88 and natural gas continues to be weak.<\/p>\n<p>Yet gold and silver are managing to stay positive as the &#8220;fear&#8221; trade has finally kicked in for these metals.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the benefits of the sell-off may be seen as economic tailwinds as the lower cost for food and fuel could find its way into consumers pockets &#8211; ready to spend. Even so, the psychological pounding that consumers take when markets drop offset most of this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/commods-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19146\" title=\"commods\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/commods-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the USD spiking as the Euro is trashed, commodities are not too happy. Crude is trading below $88 and natural gas continues to be weak. Yet gold and silver are managing to stay positive as the &#8220;fear&#8221; trade has finally kicked in for these metals. Some of the benefits of the sell-off may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}