{"id":295458,"date":"2019-10-09T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295458"},"modified":"2019-10-09T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:25:35","slug":"oil-prices-extend-slide-to-3rd-straight-day-us-china-trade-doubts-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-extend-slide-to-3rd-straight-day-us-china-trade-doubts-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices extend slide to 3rd straight day, US-China trade doubts grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped for a third consecutive session on Wednesday as the prospect of the United States and China striking a trade deal in talks this week dimmed, raising uncertainties for global economic growth and oil demand.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. industry data showing a bigger-than-expected rise in stockpiles at the world\u2019s top oil producer also depressed prices: Brent crude futures fell 27 cents, or 0.5%, to $57.97 a barrel by 0148 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.38, down 25 cents or 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators from the world\u2019s top two economies will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday in the latest effort to hammer out a deal aimed at ending a long-running trade dispute that has slowed global economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped for a third consecutive session on Wednesday as the prospect of the United States and China striking a trade deal in talks this week dimmed, raising uncertainties for global economic growth and oil demand. U.S. industry data showing a bigger-than-expected rise in stockpiles at the world\u2019s top oil producer also depressed prices: Brent crude futures fell 27 cents, or 0.5%, to $57.97 a barrel by 0148 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.38, down 25 cents or 0.5%. Negotiators from the world\u2019s top two economies will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295458","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}