{"id":295567,"date":"2019-10-09T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295567"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:22:40","slug":"oil-prices-extend-decline-as-prospects-for-us-china-trade-deal-dim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-extend-decline-as-prospects-for-us-china-trade-deal-dim\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices extend decline as prospects for US-China trade deal dim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slipped for a third consecutive session on Wednesday as the prospect of the US and China striking a trade deal in talks this week dimmed, 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 27 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $57.97 a barrel by 0148 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.38, down 25 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 the prospect of the US and China striking a trade deal in talks this week dimmed, 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 27 cents, or 0.5 per cent, to $57.97 a barrel by 0148 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was at $52.38, down 25 cents or 0.5 per cent. Negotiators from the world&#8217;s top two economies will meet in Washington on Thursday [&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-295567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295567","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=295567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}