{"id":300375,"date":"2019-11-11T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300375"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:57:23","slug":"oil-slides-as-uncertainty-returns-about-us-china-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slides-as-uncertainty-returns-about-us-china-trade-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slides as uncertainty returns about US-China trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices fell on Friday, weighed down by lingering uncertainty about how close the United States and China were to a trade deal and on rising U.S. crude inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Benchmark Brent crude was down 92 cents at $61.37 a barrel by 1046 GMT, after dropping more than $1 earlier in the session. Brent is on track to end the week 0.5% lower.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 87 cents at $56.28 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-month trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies has slowed economic growth around the world and prompted analysts to lower forecasts for oil demand, raising concerns that a supply glut could develop in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices fell on Friday, weighed down by lingering uncertainty about how close the United States and China were to a trade deal and on rising U.S. crude inventories. Benchmark Brent crude was down 92 cents at $61.37 a barrel by 1046 GMT, after dropping more than $1 earlier in the session. Brent is on track to end the week 0.5% lower. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 87 cents at $56.28 a barrel. The 16-month trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies has slowed economic growth around the world and prompted analysts to lower forecasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-300375","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\/300375","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}