{"id":298330,"date":"2019-10-29T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298330"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T05:52:52","slug":"oil-prices-slides-down-ahead-of-inventory-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slides-down-ahead-of-inventory-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slides down ahead of inventory data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower in quiet trade on Tuesday as concerns about slower economic growth overshadowed signs of a thawing in the trade war between Washington and Beijing, while investors awaited US inventory data. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were down 3 cents at $61.54 a barrel by 0137 GMT, having fallen 0.7% on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 9 cents at $55.72, after falling 1.5% in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>Prices rose sharply last week amid a decline in US inventories and signs of an easing in the US-China trade war, but worries on Monday about weaker economic growth offset hopes of a rise in oil demand even if trade talks progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower in quiet trade on Tuesday as concerns about slower economic growth overshadowed signs of a thawing in the trade war between Washington and Beijing, while investors awaited US inventory data. Brent futures were down 3 cents at $61.54 a barrel by 0137 GMT, having fallen 0.7% on Monday. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 9 cents at $55.72, after falling 1.5% in the previous session. Prices rose sharply last week amid a decline in US inventories and signs of an easing in the US-China trade war, but worries on Monday about weaker economic growth [&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-298330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298330","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=298330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}