{"id":286164,"date":"2019-08-06T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286164"},"modified":"2019-08-06T05:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:28:01","slug":"oil-prices-edge-up-but-us-china-trade-war-drags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-edge-up-but-us-china-trade-war-drags\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices edge up but US-China trade war drags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged up on Tuesday, but remained under pressure as the escalating U.S.-China trade war stoked concerns over global economic growth and future demand for crude. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures had risen 10 cents, or 0.17 per cent, to $59.91 a barrel by 0149 GMT after earlier dipping to their lowest since mid-January at $59.07. <\/p>\n<p>The international benchmark fell more than 3 per cent on Monday as traders worried the ongoing trade tensions between the world&#8217;s two biggest oil buyers would dent appetite for fuel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged up on Tuesday, but remained under pressure as the escalating U.S.-China trade war stoked concerns over global economic growth and future demand for crude. Brent crude futures had risen 10 cents, or 0.17 per cent, to $59.91 a barrel by 0149 GMT after earlier dipping to their lowest since mid-January at $59.07. The international benchmark fell more than 3 per cent on Monday as traders worried the ongoing trade tensions between the world&#8217;s two biggest oil buyers would dent appetite for fuel.<\/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-286164","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\/286164","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=286164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}