{"id":658607,"date":"2010-02-08T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/market-heads-lower-equities-sink-while-commodities-float-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:26:00","slug":"the-market-selloff-picks-up-steam-as-investors-find-refuge-in-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658607","title":{"rendered":"The Market Selloff Picks Up Steam, As Investors Find Refuge In Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow heads into the red and is currently down around 60 points at the 9950 level. The NASDAQ and S&amp;P are both down about 5 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities remain resilient, with crude oil staying afloat at $71.79 a barrel, up $0.60.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is up $12.60 to $1065.40. Silver is up $0.26 to $15.09 an ounce and has held there for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Save for natural gas and financials, almost all commodity futures are in the green.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b7071fb0000000000b46d99\/futures-pm-feb8.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"futures pm feb8\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/market-heads-lower-equities-sink-while-commodities-float-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\/mid-day-recap-slow-day-equities-mixed-2010-2\">Markets A Snooze After Last Week&#8217;s Violence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-market-markets-still-up-2010-2\">Mid-day: Markets Still Up, Oil Still On Fire<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/market-meltdown-part-2-equities-and-commodities-both-fall-hard-2010-2\">Market Collapse Day II: Equities And Commodities Now Falling Hard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/zhwdQexQxQk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow heads into the red and is currently down around 60 points at the 9950 level. The NASDAQ and S&amp;P are both down about 5 points each. Commodities remain resilient, with crude oil staying afloat at $71.79 a barrel, up $0.60. Gold is up $12.60 to $1065.40. Silver is up $0.26 to $15.09 an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-658607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LkH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658607","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=658607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}