{"id":436796,"date":"2010-03-16T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stocks-post-solid-gains-after-fed-announcement-commodities-follow-suit-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-16T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T20:04:00","slug":"stocks-post-solid-gains-after-fed-announcement-commodities-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/436796","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Post Solid Gains After Fed Announcement, Commodities Follow Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow: Up 43 points to 10,685.<\/p>\n<p>NASDAQ: Up 16 points to 2378.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P 500: Up 9 points to 1159.<\/p>\n<p>Takeover stocks like Harley-Davidson (HOG), General Growth Properties (GGP), and Benihana Inc (BNHNA) are all soaring thanks to increased speculation and in GGP&#8217;s case, a higher bid from Simon Properties.<\/p>\n<p>HOG closed at $28.35, up 7%, GGP closed at $15.14, up 2.6%, and BNHNA closed at $6.01, up 7.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities also had a day of fantastic performance. Oil closed at $81.80 a barrel, up a massive 2.5% or $2.00 in one day. <\/p>\n<p>Gold was also strong, gaining 2% or $1.60 to shoot up to $1127 an ounce. Silver gained 1.6% or $0.28 to climb to $17.39 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b9fe36b7f8b9aa046bf0200\/gf-final-march-16th.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"GF Final March 16th\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stocks-post-solid-gains-after-fed-announcement-commodities-follow-suit-2010-3#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-bulls-trample-the-bears-as-the-dow-closes-up-175-points-2010-2\">WOW: Dow Surges By 170<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/indices-rise-as-dow-gains-nearly-100-points-futures-positive-2010-2\">Stocks Rise As Dow Gains Nearly 100 Points, Futures Positive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dow-closes-up-more-than-80-points-as-bulls-show-the-market-whos-the-boss-2010-2\">Dow Closes Up More Than 80<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/OIN8QMIIIgU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow: Up 43 points to 10,685. NASDAQ: Up 16 points to 2378. S&amp;P 500: Up 9 points to 1159. Takeover stocks like Harley-Davidson (HOG), General Growth Properties (GGP), and Benihana Inc (BNHNA) are all soaring thanks to increased speculation and in GGP&#8217;s case, a higher bid from Simon Properties. HOG closed at $28.35, up 7%, [&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-436796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436796","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=436796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}