{"id":295525,"date":"2019-10-09T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295525"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:45:22","slug":"oil-prices-dip-for-3rd-day-as-us-china-trade-doubts-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-dip-for-3rd-day-as-us-china-trade-doubts-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices dip for 3rd day as US-China trade doubts grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped for a third consecutive session on Wednesday as tensions escalated between the United States and China prior to this week&#8217;s trade talks, raising uncertainties for global economic growth and oil demand.<\/p>\n<p>US industry data showing a bigger-than-expected rise in stockpiles at the world&#8217;s top oil producer also depressed prices. Brent crude futures fell 24 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $58.00 a barrel by 0442 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.39, down 24 cents or 0.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators from the world&#8217;s 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 tensions escalated between the United States and China prior to this week&#8217;s trade talks, raising uncertainties for global economic growth and oil demand. US industry data showing a bigger-than-expected rise in stockpiles at the world&#8217;s top oil producer also depressed prices. Brent crude futures fell 24 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $58.00 a barrel by 0442 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.39, down 24 cents or 0.5 per cent. Negotiators from the world&#8217;s top two economies will meet in Washington on Thursday and Friday [&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-295525","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\/295525","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=295525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}