{"id":273291,"date":"2019-05-07T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273291"},"modified":"2019-05-07T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T06:05:13","slug":"oil-prices-under-pressure-from-u-s-china-trade-dispute-market-remains-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-under-pressure-from-u-s-china-trade-dispute-market-remains-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices under pressure from U.S.-China trade dispute, market remains tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were under pressure on Tuesday from concerns the escalating United States (US)-Iran trade dispute could slow the global economy, while US sanctions on crude exporters Iran and Venezuela helped keep the market on edge.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil futures were at $71.09 per barrel at 0341 GMT, 15 cents, or 0.2 per cent, below their last close.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $62.20 per barrel, 5 cents below their last settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said there were a number of factors driving oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>One is a concern that global economic growth is threatened by the intensifying trade dispute between the US and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were under pressure on Tuesday from concerns the escalating United States (US)-Iran trade dispute could slow the global economy, while US sanctions on crude exporters Iran and Venezuela helped keep the market on edge. Brent crude oil futures were at $71.09 per barrel at 0341 GMT, 15 cents, or 0.2 per cent, below their last close. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $62.20 per barrel, 5 cents below their last settlement. Analysts said there were a number of factors driving oil prices. One is a concern that global economic growth is threatened by the intensifying [&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-273291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273291","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=273291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}