{"id":340955,"date":"2020-03-09T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=340955"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:19:51","slug":"as-oil-prices-fall-and-coronavirus-spreads-heres-what-market-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-oil-prices-fall-and-coronavirus-spreads-heres-what-market-analysts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"As oil prices fall and coronavirus spreads, here&#8217;s what market analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets have been thrown into turmoil following Saudi Arabia&#8217;s response to the collapse of OPEC+ talks and concerns about the global spread of the coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>Following are comments from analysts: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m seeing is a confluence of two black swan events: Coronavirus reaction and oil. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investors haven&#8217;t gone to guns and butter yet. They haven&#8217;t made the shift to Procter &amp; Gamble and Pepsi Cola from tech stocks. Those are the sort of things I look for, but until I see that I&#8217;m struck that there&#8217;s more downside vulnerability. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other side of it is debt. As oil prices fall and credit markets tighten, a lot of companies are not going to be able to refinance their debts or extend maturities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial markets have been thrown into turmoil following Saudi Arabia&#8217;s response to the collapse of OPEC+ talks and concerns about the global spread of the coronavirus. Following are comments from analysts: &#8220;What I&#8217;m seeing is a confluence of two black swan events: Coronavirus reaction and oil. &#8220;Investors haven&#8217;t gone to guns and butter yet. They haven&#8217;t made the shift to Procter &amp; Gamble and Pepsi Cola from tech stocks. Those are the sort of things I look for, but until I see that I&#8217;m struck that there&#8217;s more downside vulnerability. &#8220;The other side of it is debt. As oil prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}