{"id":274124,"date":"2019-05-14T05:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274124"},"modified":"2019-05-14T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T05:50:13","slug":"oil-prices-up-as-tanker-attacks-heighten-supply-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-up-as-tanker-attacks-heighten-supply-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices up as tanker attacks heighten supply concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil futures rose on Monday on increasing concerns about supply disruptions in West Asia even as investors and traders fretted over global economic growth prospects amid a stand-off in the Sino-US trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $71.71 a barrel by 0912 GMT, up $1.09. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were at $62.45 per barrel, up 79 cents.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two Saudi oil tankers were among vessels targeted by a \u201csabotage attack\u201d off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, condemning it as an attempt to undermine the security of global crude supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil futures rose on Monday on increasing concerns about supply disruptions in West Asia even as investors and traders fretted over global economic growth prospects amid a stand-off in the Sino-US trade talks. Brent crude futures were at $71.71 a barrel by 0912 GMT, up $1.09. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were at $62.45 per barrel, up 79 cents. Saudi Arabia said on Monday that two Saudi oil tankers were among vessels targeted by a \u201csabotage attack\u201d off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, condemning it as an attempt to undermine the security of global crude supplies.<\/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-274124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274124","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=274124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}