{"id":296971,"date":"2019-10-19T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=296971"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T05:49:02","slug":"oil-ebbs-as-chinas-slowest-gdp-growth-in-almost-3-decades-stokes-demand-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-ebbs-as-chinas-slowest-gdp-growth-in-almost-3-decades-stokes-demand-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil ebbs as China&#8217;s slowest GDP growth in almost 3 decades stokes demand fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Friday on jitters over demand from China after the world&#8217;s largest oil importer recorded its weakest quarter of economic growth in nearly three decades, dragged down by a trade dispute with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Global benchmark Brent crude oil futures fell by 21 cents, 0.4%, to $59.70 a barrel by 0646 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures edged down by 4 cents, or 0.1%, to $53.89 per barrel. <\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter, China&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 6% year-on-year, its weakest pace in 27-1\/2 years and below expectations, dogged by soft factory production amid ongoing trade tensions with United States and sluggish domestic demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid on Friday on jitters over demand from China after the world&#8217;s largest oil importer recorded its weakest quarter of economic growth in nearly three decades, dragged down by a trade dispute with the United States. Global benchmark Brent crude oil futures fell by 21 cents, 0.4%, to $59.70 a barrel by 0646 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures edged down by 4 cents, or 0.1%, to $53.89 per barrel. In the third quarter, China&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 6% year-on-year, its weakest pace in 27-1\/2 years and below expectations, dogged by soft [&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-296971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296971","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=296971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}