{"id":290519,"date":"2019-09-05T05:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290519"},"modified":"2019-09-05T06:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T06:05:20","slug":"oil-prices-rise-after-us-confirms-trade-talks-with-china-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-after-us-confirms-trade-talks-with-china-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise after US confirms trade talks with China to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Thursday, rebounding from earlier losses, after the US confirmed that talks with China to reach a trade agreement would be held in the coming weeks, giving hope that a dispute that has roiled global economies will be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The gains add to a surge in prices on Wednesday that had been driven by a survey showing activity in China&#8217;s services sector expanded at the fastest pace in three months in August, as new orders rose in the world&#8217;s second-biggest consumer of oil.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up 21 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $60.91 a barrel by 0301 GMT. On Wednesday, Brent rose 4.2 per cent. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was up 17 cents, or 0.3 per cent, at $56.43 a barrel, having risen 4.3 per cent the previous session, the biggest percentage gain in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Thursday, rebounding from earlier losses, after the US confirmed that talks with China to reach a trade agreement would be held in the coming weeks, giving hope that a dispute that has roiled global economies will be resolved. The gains add to a surge in prices on Wednesday that had been driven by a survey showing activity in China&#8217;s services sector expanded at the fastest pace in three months in August, as new orders rose in the world&#8217;s second-biggest consumer of oil. Brent crude was up 21 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $60.91 a barrel [&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-290519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290519","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=290519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}