{"id":297601,"date":"2010-02-09T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-markets-equities-give-up-some-gains-commodities-climb-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:17:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:17:55","slug":"mid-day-markets-equities-give-up-some-gains-commodities-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297601","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Day Markets: Equities Give Up Some Gains, Commodities Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equities started off with a bang today with the DJIA soaring another hundred-some-odd points. Then around 10:45am, the market pivoted and is now giving up a little.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Dow is at 9988 and drifting. The NASDAQ is up 7.75 to 2133.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar is weakening and in turn, commodities are climbing. Oil is now $72.78 a barrel, up $0.90. <\/p>\n<p>Gold is doing well, up $7.20 to $1073 an ounce. Silver is up $0.20 to $15.29 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, futures are up across the board thanks to the weakening dollar. Only natural gas is taking a hit, down 2.7% to $5.2760.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b718a2700000000001a4ce2\/futuresnoon-feb9.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FUTURES_NOON-feb9\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mid-day-markets-equities-give-up-some-gains-commodities-climb-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\/the-stock-rally-peters-out-as-equities-end-a-mixed-bag-oil-prices-drop-over-increased-supply-2010-2\">The Stock Rally Peters Out As Equities End A Mixed Bag, Oil Prices Drop Over Increased Supply<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/market-opens-weak-dow-down-55-points-commodities-up-2010-2\">Market Opens Weak: Dow Down 55 Points, Commodities Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jobs-data-saves-the-day-as-stocks-open-mixed-2010-2\">Jobs Data Saves The Day As Stocks Start Mixed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/wSDzuSsDkqQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equities started off with a bang today with the DJIA soaring another hundred-some-odd points. Then around 10:45am, the market pivoted and is now giving up a little. Currently, the Dow is at 9988 and drifting. The NASDAQ is up 7.75 to 2133. The dollar is weakening and in turn, commodities are climbing. Oil is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}