{"id":259907,"date":"2019-02-20T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=259907"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:14:20","slug":"brent-dips-as-demand-worries-weigh-us-oil-prices-hit-2019-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-dips-as-demand-worries-weigh-us-oil-prices-hit-2019-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent dips as demand worries weigh, US oil prices hit 2019 high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as concerns about global crude oil demand and uncertainty over the latest round of US-China trade talks countered investor optimism around tightening supplies. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude slipped 5 cents to settle at $66.45 a barrel, hovering below its 2019 high of $66.83 reached on Monday. US crude was up 50 cents to $56.09 a barrel, its highest since November 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s sanctions on oil out of Venezuela, a top supplier of sour crude to the United States, has helped support US futures prices, said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of those sour grades are lifting the WTI&#8230; That seems to be the situation short term,&#8221; Flynn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as concerns about global crude oil demand and uncertainty over the latest round of US-China trade talks countered investor optimism around tightening supplies. Brent crude slipped 5 cents to settle at $66.45 a barrel, hovering below its 2019 high of $66.83 reached on Monday. US crude was up 50 cents to $56.09 a barrel, its highest since November 2018. Washington&#8217;s sanctions on oil out of Venezuela, a top supplier of sour crude to the United States, has helped support US futures prices, said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. &#8220;Some [&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-259907","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\/259907","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=259907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}