{"id":275472,"date":"2019-05-21T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=275472"},"modified":"2019-05-21T06:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:13:56","slug":"oil-rises-on-us-iran-tensions-but-trade-war-concerns-weigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-on-us-iran-tensions-but-trade-war-concerns-weigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises on US-Iran tensions, but trade war concerns weigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Oil prices rose on Tuesday on escalating US-Iran tensions and amid expectations that producer club OPEC will continue to withhold supply this year.<\/p>\n<p>But gains were checked by concerns that a prolonged trade war between Washington and Beijing could lead to a global economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $72.24 per barrel at 0534 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.4%, from their last close.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 26 cents, or 0.4%, at $63.36 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Oil prices rose on Tuesday on escalating US-Iran tensions and amid expectations that producer club OPEC will continue to withhold supply this year. But gains were checked by concerns that a prolonged trade war between Washington and Beijing could lead to a global economic slowdown. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $72.24 per barrel at 0534 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.4%, from their last close. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 26 cents, or 0.4%, at $63.36 per barrel.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275472","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=275472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}