{"id":267658,"date":"2019-04-02T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=267658"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:27:56","slug":"oil-prices-rise-on-supply-worries-extend-strong-q1-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-on-supply-worries-extend-strong-q1-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise on supply worries, extend strong Q1 gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Monday, adding to gains in the first quarter when the major benchmarks posted their biggest increases in nearly a decade, as concerns about supplies outweigh fears of a slowing global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Positive Chinese factory gauges and signs of progress in Sino-US trade talks also boosted sentiment, helping buoy regional stockmarkets.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude for June delivery was up by 64 cents, or 1 per cent, at $68.22 a barrel by 0606 GMT, having risen 27 per cent in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures rose 43 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $60.57 barrel, after posting a rise of 32 per cent in the January-March period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Monday, adding to gains in the first quarter when the major benchmarks posted their biggest increases in nearly a decade, as concerns about supplies outweigh fears of a slowing global economy. Positive Chinese factory gauges and signs of progress in Sino-US trade talks also boosted sentiment, helping buoy regional stockmarkets. Brent crude for June delivery was up by 64 cents, or 1 per cent, at $68.22 a barrel by 0606 GMT, having risen 27 per cent in the first quarter. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures rose 43 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $60.57 barrel, [&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-267658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267658","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=267658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}