{"id":260892,"date":"2019-02-23T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T07:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=260892"},"modified":"2019-02-23T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T07:04:27","slug":"brent-hits-new-2019-high-on-us-china-trade-talk-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-hits-new-2019-high-on-us-china-trade-talk-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent hits new 2019 high on US-China trade talk hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday, supported by OPEC&#8217;s ongoing supply cuts and hopes that Washington and Beijing may soon end their trade dispute.<\/p>\n<p>International Brent crude futures hit a new 2019 high of $67.60 a barrel, up 53 cents from Thursday&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n<p>Further gains were tempered by US crude oil production hitting a record 12 million barrels per day (bpd) and a surge in exports from the country. By 1125 GMT, US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were up 51 cents at $57.48 per barrel but still shy of this week&#8217;s $57.55 per barrel 2019 high.<\/p>\n<p>The broad outline of a possible US-China trade deal was beginning to emerge from talks between the two countries, sources told Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Friday, supported by OPEC&#8217;s ongoing supply cuts and hopes that Washington and Beijing may soon end their trade dispute. International Brent crude futures hit a new 2019 high of $67.60 a barrel, up 53 cents from Thursday&#8217;s close. Further gains were tempered by US crude oil production hitting a record 12 million barrels per day (bpd) and a surge in exports from the country. By 1125 GMT, US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were up 51 cents at $57.48 per barrel but still shy of this week&#8217;s $57.55 per barrel 2019 high. The broad [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260892","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=260892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}