{"id":98072,"date":"2018-04-12T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=98072"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:29:15","slug":"stocks-stumble-after-reports-us-plans-to-strike-8-syrian-targets-confident-of-chemical-weapons-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=98072","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Stumble After Reports US Plans To Strike 8 Syrian Targets, &#8220;Confident&#8221; Of Chemical Weapons Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>After a brief pop on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-12\/trump-i-have-full-confidence-ty-cobb-weve-been-historicall-cooperative-mueller\">Trump&#8217;s conciliatory Mueller tweet,<\/a>\u00a0stocks are sinking after\u00a0<strong>CNBC reported that US is planning to strike 8 targets, including two airfields, a research center, and a chemical weapons facility in Syria<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stocks dropped and gold and Treasury prices rose modestly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-12_10-30-40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98074\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-12_10-30-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-12_10-30-40.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-12_10-30-40-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US officials are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/mideast\/u-s-has-blood-samples-show-nerve-agent-syria-gas-n865431\">\u00a0telling NBC<\/a>\u00a0that urine and blood samples have<strong>\u00a0tested positive for chemical weapons<\/strong>\u00a0in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>US Official to NBC News: Syria samples test<strong>\u00a0positive for chlorine gas, nerve agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>US officials \u201cfairly confident\u201d attack was by Syrian regime<\/strong>\u00a0per report by MSNBC.\u00a0The officials said they were<strong>\u00a0&#8220;confident&#8221; in the intelligence, though not 100 percent sure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The assessment about the nature of this April&#8217;s chemical attack and its likely origin with the Assad regime will be presented to the president, said the official familiar with the intelligence. The president is weighing options for retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-12\/stocks-tumble-cnbc-reports-us-plans-strike-8-syrian-targets\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-12\/stocks-tumble-cnbc-reports-us-plans-strike-8-syrian-targets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}