{"id":290864,"date":"2019-09-07T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290864"},"modified":"2019-09-07T06:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:25:16","slug":"oil-steadies-set-for-weekly-gain-amid-hopes-for-end-to-us-china-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steadies-set-for-weekly-gain-amid-hopes-for-end-to-us-china-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steadies, set for weekly gain amid hopes for end to US-China trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Friday, with crude benchmarks poised for multi-week gains amid a sharp drawdown in US crude inventories, while trade tensions eased as Washington and Beijing agreed to hold high-level talks next month.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 3 cents at $60.92 a barrel by 0850 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 10 cents at $56.20 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Brent is set to mark its fourth weekly gain, while US crude is headed for a second weekly rise. <\/p>\n<p>Beijing and Washington on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors hoping for an end to the trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies that has brought tit-for-tat tariff hikes, chipping away at economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Friday, with crude benchmarks poised for multi-week gains amid a sharp drawdown in US crude inventories, while trade tensions eased as Washington and Beijing agreed to hold high-level talks next month. Brent crude was down 3 cents at $60.92 a barrel by 0850 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 10 cents at $56.20 a barrel. Brent is set to mark its fourth weekly gain, while US crude is headed for a second weekly rise. Beijing and Washington on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290864","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\/290864","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=290864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}