{"id":26591,"date":"2018-04-20T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fdcng.com\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2018-04-20T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:12:45","slug":"fdc-commodity-update-april-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/fdc-commodity-update-april-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"FDC COMMODITY UPDATE &#8211; APRIL 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"gem-button-container gem-button-position-inline\"><a class=\"gem-button gem-button-size-small gem-button-style-flat gem-button-text-weight-normal\" style=\"border-radius: 3px;background-color: #ddbd89;color: #ffffff;\" onmouseleave=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#ddbd89';this.style.color='#ffffff';\" onmouseenter=\"this.style.backgroundColor='#ddccaa';this.style.color='#000000';\" href=\"http:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Commodities-Update-April-19th-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div> [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber,<\/p>\n<p>The consumer confidence index (CCI) fell sharply by 23points to -6.4points in Q1\u201918, driven by consumers\u2019 perception of deteriorating economic conditions and declining disposable income. Ironically, the CCI is declining at a time when the PMI, a measure of investor optimism, is increasing (59.4points). The explanation for this anomaly is that CCI is a lagging indicator whilst the latter is a leading indicator. In a few weeks when the Q1\u201918 GDP numbers are released, these contradictions should be laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>The attached slides contain a snapshot of recent commodity market movements and burning economic issues.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your read&#8230;.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dear Subscriber, The consumer confidence index (CCI) fell sharply by 23points to -6.4points in Q1\u201918, driven by consumers\u2019 perception of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35,110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26592,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions\/26592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fdcng.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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