{"id":282053,"date":"2019-07-15T05:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282053"},"modified":"2019-07-15T05:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:21:51","slug":"oil-hovers-near-6-week-high-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-west-asia-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-hovers-near-6-week-high-amid-gulf-of-mexico-storm-west-asia-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil hovers near 6-week high amid Gulf of Mexico storm, West Asia tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hovered near six-week highs on Friday as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output in the face of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 53 cents, or 0.8%, at $67.05 per barrel by 0606 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7% on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.65 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 42 cents, or 0.7%, at $60.62 a barrel. The US benchmark marked its highest level since May 23 in the previous session at $60.94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hovered near six-week highs on Friday as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output in the face of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East. Brent crude futures were up 53 cents, or 0.8%, at $67.05 per barrel by 0606 GMT. The international benchmark settled down 0.7% on Thursday after hitting its highest since May 30 at $67.65 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 42 cents, or 0.7%, at $60.62 a barrel. The US benchmark marked its highest level since [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282053","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=282053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}