{"id":651580,"date":"2010-02-02T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/equities-and-commodities-on-the-rise-softs-down-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:53:00","slug":"equities-and-commodities-on-the-rise-soft-goods-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651580","title":{"rendered":"Equities And Commodities On The Rise, Soft Goods Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bull-market\">Bulls<\/a> are winning for the second day in a row. Can they hold on?<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Dow is up 68 points at 10,253. The NASDAQ and S&amp;P are up 8 points each as well.<\/p>\n<p>Tech is the weakest. Retailers seem to be relatively unaffected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/redbook-index-ends-up-down-15-month-over-month-2010-2\">today&#8217;s Redbook numbers<\/a>, and energy is a mixed bag. The financials? Depends on which company you&#8217;re looking at today.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining for several days, silver is on the downturn slightly, down two cents to $16.65 an ounce. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gold\">Gold<\/a> continues to climb, gaining $8.80 to settle at $1114. <\/p>\n<p>Oil is up $1.26 a barrel to $75.70. Natural gas futures are slightly down.<\/p>\n<p>Softs are the only commodies doing poorly so far. Cocoa and cotton futures are down 1.5% each.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b684982000000000061dac4-566-259\/finviz-commods-am.jpg?resize=566%2C259\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Finviz Commods AM\" width=\"566\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Disclosure: the author has a position in silver)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/equities-and-commodities-on-the-rise-softs-down-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-closes-up-over-110-points-huge-day-for-gold-2010-2\">Dow Closes Up Over 110 Points, Huge Day For Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dont-buy-gold-buy-coke-2010-1\">Who Needs Gold As An Inflation Hedge When You&#8217;ve Got Coke?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/t-boone-pickens-is-a-huge-natural-gas-bull-but-not-for-2010-2010-1\">T. Boone Pickens Hates Natural Gas This Year<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/WanGCMm-yJY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulls are winning for the second day in a row. Can they hold on? Currently, the Dow is up 68 points at 10,253. The NASDAQ and S&amp;P are up 8 points each as well. Tech is the weakest. Retailers seem to be relatively unaffected by today&#8217;s Redbook numbers, and energy is a mixed bag. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jvm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}