{"id":286029,"date":"2019-08-05T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286029"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:37:10","slug":"oil-prices-drop-as-us-china-tension-fuels-growth-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-drop-as-us-china-tension-fuels-growth-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices drop as US-China tension fuels growth concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday amid concerns about weaker crude demand after US President Donald Trump said he would impose tariffs on more Chinese imports, potentially ramping up a trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the Middle East offered some support to prices, with Iran seizing a tanker that it said was smuggling fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 50 cents, or 0.8%, at $61.39 a barrel by 0029 GMT. US crude was down 24 cents, or 0.4%, at $55.42 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the benchmarks fell last week, with Brent dropping more than 2% and US crude ending the week around 1% lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday amid concerns about weaker crude demand after US President Donald Trump said he would impose tariffs on more Chinese imports, potentially ramping up a trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies. Tensions in the Middle East offered some support to prices, with Iran seizing a tanker that it said was smuggling fuel. Brent crude was down 50 cents, or 0.8%, at $61.39 a barrel by 0029 GMT. US crude was down 24 cents, or 0.4%, at $55.42 a barrel. Both of the benchmarks fell last week, with Brent dropping more than 2% and US [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286029","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=286029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}