{"id":262452,"date":"2019-03-05T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262452"},"modified":"2019-03-05T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T06:55:04","slug":"oil-firms-as-us-china-trade-deal-appears-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-firms-as-us-china-trade-deal-appears-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil firms as US-China trade deal appears close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices firmed on Monday as the United States and China were reported to be close to signing a trade deal, ending a tit-for-tat tariff row that has roiled financial markets and clouded the outlook for the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>International Brent futures were at $65.25 a barrel at 0022 GMT, up 18 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last close. Brent fell 1.5 percent on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $56.05 per barrel, up 25 cents, or 0.5 percent. WTI futures fell 2.5 percent on Friday.<br \/>\nThe rally came as signs that the United States and China will finally ink a trade deal eased fears about global demand growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices firmed on Monday as the United States and China were reported to be close to signing a trade deal, ending a tit-for-tat tariff row that has roiled financial markets and clouded the outlook for the global economy. International Brent futures were at $65.25 a barrel at 0022 GMT, up 18 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last close. Brent fell 1.5 percent on Friday. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $56.05 per barrel, up 25 cents, or 0.5 percent. WTI futures fell 2.5 percent on Friday. The rally came as signs that the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262452","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}