{"id":289959,"date":"2019-09-02T06:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289959"},"modified":"2019-09-02T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:09:05","slug":"oil-falls-amid-new-round-of-tariffs-in-us-china-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-amid-new-round-of-tariffs-in-us-china-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls amid new round of tariffs in US-China trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices fell on Monday after new tariffs imposed by the United States and China came into force, raising concerns about a further hit to global growth and demand for crude. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 42 cents, or 0.7 per cent, at $58.83 a barrel by 0041 GMT, while US oil was down 27 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $54.83 at barrel. <\/p>\n<p>The United States began imposing 15 per cent tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods on Sunday &#8211; including footwear, smart watches and flat-panel televisions &#8211; as China put new duties on US crude, the latest escalation in a bruising trade war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices fell on Monday after new tariffs imposed by the United States and China came into force, raising concerns about a further hit to global growth and demand for crude. Brent crude was down 42 cents, or 0.7 per cent, at $58.83 a barrel by 0041 GMT, while US oil was down 27 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $54.83 at barrel. The United States began imposing 15 per cent tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods on Sunday &#8211; including footwear, smart watches and flat-panel televisions &#8211; as China put new duties on US crude, the latest [&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-289959","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\/289959","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=289959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}