{"id":288931,"date":"2019-08-27T06:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=288931"},"modified":"2019-08-27T06:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:27:24","slug":"oil-rises-as-us-china-trade-comments-calm-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-as-us-china-trade-comments-calm-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises as US-China trade comments calm markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump predicted a trade deal with China after positive comments by Beijing, calming nerves after a round of tit-for-tat tariff hikes had sent markets reeling. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up by 25 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $58.95 a barrel by 0214 GMT, after falling 1 per cent in the previous session, dropping for a third day in a row. <\/p>\n<p>US crude was up by 30 cents or 0.6 per cent at $53.94 a barrel, having also dropped 1 per cent on Monday for a fourth day of declines. <\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday said he believed China was sincere about wanting to reach a deal, while Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said China was willing to resolve the dispute through \u201ccalm\u201d negotiations, settling global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump predicted a trade deal with China after positive comments by Beijing, calming nerves after a round of tit-for-tat tariff hikes had sent markets reeling. Brent crude was up by 25 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $58.95 a barrel by 0214 GMT, after falling 1 per cent in the previous session, dropping for a third day in a row. US crude was up by 30 cents or 0.6 per cent at $53.94 a barrel, having also dropped 1 per cent on Monday for a fourth day of declines. Trump on [&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-288931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288931","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=288931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}