{"id":297526,"date":"2019-10-22T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297526"},"modified":"2019-10-22T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:47:39","slug":"oil-prices-edge-up-on-us-china-trade-optimism-but-demand-concerns-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-edge-up-on-us-china-trade-optimism-but-demand-concerns-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices edge up on US-China trade optimism, but demand concerns cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices steadied a little on Tuesday, supported by signs of progress in talks on resolving the US-China trade dispute, but gains were contained by lingering anxiety a slowdown in the global economy could hurt crude demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $59.10 a barrel by 0027 GMT, up 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their previous settlement. Brent settled down 0.8 per cent at $58.96.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures advanced 18 cents, or 0.3 per cent, from their last close to $53.49 per barrel. In the previous session, WTI settled 0.9 lower at $53.31 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices steadied a little on Tuesday, supported by signs of progress in talks on resolving the US-China trade dispute, but gains were contained by lingering anxiety a slowdown in the global economy could hurt crude demand. Brent crude futures were at $59.10 a barrel by 0027 GMT, up 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, from their previous settlement. Brent settled down 0.8 per cent at $58.96. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures advanced 18 cents, or 0.3 per cent, from their last close to $53.49 per barrel. In the previous session, WTI settled 0.9 lower at $53.31 a [&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-297526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297526","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=297526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}