{"id":364,"date":"2010-09-01T00:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/?p=364"},"modified":"2010-09-01T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T23:30:46","slug":"us-crude-oil-price-1-august-31-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/finance\/us-crude-oil-price-1-august-31-august-2010","title":{"rendered":"US Crude Oil Price: 1 August &#8211; 31 August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate (http:\/\/www.seodesignsolutions.com\/wordpress-seo\/) - Code Inserter module -->\n<!-- SEO Ultimate before item content-->\r\n<!-- #SEO Ultimate before item content-->\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate -->\n\n<p>Oil price slumped over August, sliding from around USD $83 at the beginning of August, to USD $71.74 at the closing of the month.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that a weak demand in stocks and commodities\u00a0throughout August was the leading cause for a bearish downtrend to the overall market sentiment.\u00a0 Reassurance by Ben Bernanke&#8217;s speech\u00a0given\u00a0on 27 August was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/dont-get-fooled-by-ben-bernanke-2010-08-31\" target=\"_blank\">short-lived<\/a>.\u00a0 Every investor is now \u00a0looking for either a miracle or a disaster!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-363\" title=\"US Crude Oil 1 August - 31 August 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010-1024x511.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010-1024x511.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010-300x149.png 300w, http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010.png 1372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/US-Crude-Oil-1-August-31-August-2010.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- SEO Ultimate (http:\/\/www.seodesignsolutions.com\/wordpress-seo\/) - Code Inserter module -->\n<!-- SEO Ultimate after item content-->\r\n<!-- #SEO Ultimate after item content-->\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil price slumped over August, sliding from around USD $83 at the beginning of August, to USD $71.74 at the closing of the month. It seems that a weak demand in stocks and commodities\u00a0throughout August was the leading cause for a bearish downtrend to the overall market sentiment.\u00a0 Reassurance by Ben Bernanke&#8217;s speech\u00a0given\u00a0on 27 August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,7,10],"tags":[92,29,26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.penguino.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}