{"id":447350,"date":"2021-11-05T11:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447350"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:51:35","slug":"coal-least-loved-commodity-appreciates-188-the-best-performer-since-last-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-least-loved-commodity-appreciates-188-the-best-performer-since-last-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal\u2014\u2018least loved commodity\u2019\u2014appreciates 188%, the best performer since last Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The best returns between last Diwali and this year were generated by a commodity that is commonly described as \u2018least loved\u2019 because of its association with climate change. Prices of Australian coal in the last 12 months have increased 188% \u2014almost twice the appreciation of Brent crude, which is under focus for its 95% rise.<br \/>\nWhile coal and crude were the best performers in the last 12 months, the worst performers, ironically, were gold and silver, which dipped 4.7% and 2.9% after rising amid the flight-to-safety following the pandemic-induced economic crisis last year, according to an analysis by Care Ratings. Coal has seen demand firing up even as the world is trying to arrive at a consensus on net-zero emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The best returns between last Diwali and this year were generated by a commodity that is commonly described as \u2018least loved\u2019 because of its association with climate change. Prices of Australian coal in the last 12 months have increased 188% \u2014almost twice the appreciation of Brent crude, which is under focus for its 95% rise. While coal and crude were the best performers in the last 12 months, the worst performers, ironically, were gold and silver, which dipped 4.7% and 2.9% after rising amid the flight-to-safety following the pandemic-induced economic crisis last year, according to an analysis by Care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447350","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}