{"id":261103,"date":"2019-02-25T06:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261103"},"modified":"2019-02-25T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T07:00:24","slug":"oil-prices-firm-on-hopes-for-us-china-trade-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-firm-on-hopes-for-us-china-trade-deal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices firm on hopes for US, China trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Monday as Washington and China appeared to edge closer to a trade deal, dampening fears over the outlook for global economic growth. <\/p>\n<p>International Brent crude oil futures were at $67.26 a barrel at 0005 GMT, up 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their last close. They ended Friday little changed after touching their highest since November 16 at $67.73 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $57.38 per barrel, up 11 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their last settlement. WTI futures climbed 0.5 per cent on Friday, having marked their highest since Nov. 16 at $57.81 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrude prices continue to be supported on optimism a trade deal will be reached in the coming days by the world&#8217;s two largest economies, said Edward Moya, senior market analyst, OANDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Monday as Washington and China appeared to edge closer to a trade deal, dampening fears over the outlook for global economic growth. International Brent crude oil futures were at $67.26 a barrel at 0005 GMT, up 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their last close. They ended Friday little changed after touching their highest since November 16 at $67.73 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $57.38 per barrel, up 11 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their last settlement. WTI futures climbed 0.5 per cent on Friday, having marked their [&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-261103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261103","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=261103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}