{"id":284141,"date":"2019-07-24T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284141"},"modified":"2019-07-24T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:03:30","slug":"oil-prices-gain-on-us-inventory-drop-middle-east-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-gain-on-us-inventory-drop-middle-east-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices gain on US inventory drop, Middle East tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices rose on Wednesday, extending gains after an industry group reported a much bigger than expected drop in US inventories, while the US Navy said it may have downed a second Iranian drone last week. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were up 24 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $64.07 a barrel by 0049 GMT, after rising nearly 1 per cent on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude were up 22 cents, or 0.4 per cent, a barrel, having risen about 1 per cent in the previous session. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices rose on Wednesday, extending gains after an industry group reported a much bigger than expected drop in US inventories, while the US Navy said it may have downed a second Iranian drone last week. Brent crude futures were up 24 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $64.07 a barrel by 0049 GMT, after rising nearly 1 per cent on Tuesday. US West Texas Intermediate crude were up 22 cents, or 0.4 per cent, a barrel, having risen about 1 per cent in the previous session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284141","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}