{"id":406642,"date":"2021-03-24T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406642"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T04:06:45","slug":"global-shares-and-oil-slide-as-sanctions-coronavirus-fears-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-shares-and-oil-slide-as-sanctions-coronavirus-fears-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Global shares and oil slide as sanctions, coronavirus fears strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Shares slipped from a one-year peak, sovereign bond yields fell, and oil prices slumped as a wave of coronavirus infections, a fresh lockdown in Germany and U.S. and European sanctions over China combined to curb risk appetite worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The STOXX index of 600 European shares fell 0.4%, while the benchmark 10-year German government bond yield dropped 4 basis points to -0.351% and gold inched up as investors sought safer assets.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. markets appeared set to inherit the negative mood with S&amp;P 500 futures down 0.4% ahead of Congressional testimony by Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Shares slipped from a one-year peak, sovereign bond yields fell, and oil prices slumped as a wave of coronavirus infections, a fresh lockdown in Germany and U.S. and European sanctions over China combined to curb risk appetite worldwide. The STOXX index of 600 European shares fell 0.4%, while the benchmark 10-year German government bond yield dropped 4 basis points to -0.351% and gold inched up as investors sought safer assets. U.S. markets appeared set to inherit the negative mood with S&amp;P 500 futures down 0.4% ahead of Congressional testimony by Fed Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury [&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-406642","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\/406642","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=406642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}