{"id":269990,"date":"2019-04-20T06:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T06:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269990"},"modified":"2019-04-20T06:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T06:56:49","slug":"oil-prices-inch-up-on-signs-of-tighter-global-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-inch-up-on-signs-of-tighter-global-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices inch up on signs of tighter global supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil futures edged up on Thursday as a drop in crude exports from OPEC&#8217;s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, and a draw in U.S. drilling rigs and oil inventories supported prices.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures settled at $71.97 a barrel, up 35 cents from their last close and near Wednesday&#8217;s five-month high of $72.27. Brent saw a weekly gain of 0.6 percent, marking the fourth consecutive weekly rise for the international benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>In post-settlement trade, the contract added 4 cents to $72.01 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures settled at $64.00 a barrel, up 24.00 cents. U.S. futures gained just under 0.2 percent for the week, their seventh weekly gain in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil futures edged up on Thursday as a drop in crude exports from OPEC&#8217;s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, and a draw in U.S. drilling rigs and oil inventories supported prices. Brent crude futures settled at $71.97 a barrel, up 35 cents from their last close and near Wednesday&#8217;s five-month high of $72.27. Brent saw a weekly gain of 0.6 percent, marking the fourth consecutive weekly rise for the international benchmark. In post-settlement trade, the contract added 4 cents to $72.01 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures settled at $64.00 a barrel, up 24.00 cents. U.S. futures [&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-269990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269990","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=269990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}