{"id":285759,"date":"2019-08-03T05:29:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285759"},"modified":"2019-08-03T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T05:29:04","slug":"oil-prices-rebound-more-than-2-after-plunge-on-trumps-tariff-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rebound-more-than-2-after-plunge-on-trumps-tariff-vow\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rebound more than 2% after plunge on Trump&#8217;s tariff vow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices rose around 2 per cent on Friday, regaining ground after their biggest falls in years on US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports. <\/p>\n<p>The move, due to take effect on Sept. 1, would intensify a trade war between the world&#8217;s top two economies and crude consumers that has disrupted global supply chains and roiled financial markets. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures slumped more than 7 per cent on Thursday, their steepest drop in more than three years. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell nearly 8 per cent to post their biggest drop in more than four years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices rose around 2 per cent on Friday, regaining ground after their biggest falls in years on US President Donald Trump&#8217;s threat to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports. The move, due to take effect on Sept. 1, would intensify a trade war between the world&#8217;s top two economies and crude consumers that has disrupted global supply chains and roiled financial markets. Brent crude futures slumped more than 7 per cent on Thursday, their steepest drop in more than three years. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell nearly 8 per cent to post their biggest drop [&hellip;]<\/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-285759","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\/285759","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=285759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}