{"id":20195,"date":"2011-03-17T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2011-03-17T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T21:53:32","slug":"commodities-end-higher-crude-oil-futures-finish-in-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/17\/commodities-end-higher-crude-oil-futures-finish-in-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodities End Higher; Crude Oil Futures Finish in Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commodities ended trading mostly higher as crude oil and gold futures  finished in positive territory on news that work to control the damaged  nuclear power plant in Japan made progress. Light, sweet crude oil for  April delivery finished up 3.5%, or $3.44 to $101.42 a barrel. In other  energy futures, heating oil was up 1.31% to $3.05 a gallon while natural  gas was down 0.15% to $3.93 per million British thermal units.  Meanwhile, gold futures rose, helped by a weaker dollar Gold for April  delivery finished up $8.10 to $1,404.20 an ounce. In other metal  futures, silver was down $0.21 to $34.26 a troy ounce, while copper  traded up $0.21 to $4.34. The U.S. dollar index (DXY) is down 0.83% to  $76.04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodities ended trading mostly higher as crude oil and gold futures finished in positive territory on news that work to control the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan made progress. Light, sweet crude oil for April delivery finished up 3.5%, or $3.44 to $101.42 a barrel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}