{"id":268220,"date":"2019-04-05T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268220"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:03:46","slug":"oil-prices-fall-but-on-track-for-weekly-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-but-on-track-for-weekly-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall, but on track for weekly gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Friday, with Brent slipping away from the $70 mark after briefly rising above that level in the previous session, hurt by supply concerns and worries about progress in US-China trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>International benchmark Brent futures dropped 26 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $69.14 a barrel by 0229 GMT, having touched $70.03 in the previous session, the highest since Nov. 12.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 1 cent at $62.09. The contract fell 36 cents in the previous session, having hit $62.99 on Wednesday, its highest since November. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Brent is heading for a second week of gains, while WTI is on track for a fifth consecutive weekly rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Friday, with Brent slipping away from the $70 mark after briefly rising above that level in the previous session, hurt by supply concerns and worries about progress in US-China trade talks. International benchmark Brent futures dropped 26 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $69.14 a barrel by 0229 GMT, having touched $70.03 in the previous session, the highest since Nov. 12. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 1 cent at $62.09. The contract fell 36 cents in the previous session, having hit $62.99 on Wednesday, its highest since November. Still, Brent is heading for [&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-268220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268220","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=268220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}