{"id":300541,"date":"2019-11-13T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300541"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:25:17","slug":"oil-prices-fall-after-trump-plays-down-optimistic-china-trade-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-after-trump-plays-down-optimistic-china-trade-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall after Trump plays down optimistic China trade reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices dipped on Monday after US President Donald Trump appeared to play down reports of an imminent lifting of tariffs in a protracted US-Chinese trade war. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 48 cents at $62.03 by 1311 GMT. The contract gained 1.3% last week. <\/p>\n<p>US crude was 59 cents lower at $56.65 a barrel, having risen 1.9% last week. <\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Saturday that trade talks with China were moving along &#8220;very nicely&#8221; but the United States would only make a deal if it was the right one for America. <\/p>\n<p>Trump also said there had been incorrect reporting about US willingness to lift tariffs as part of a &#8220;phase one&#8221; agreement, news of which had boosted markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices dipped on Monday after US President Donald Trump appeared to play down reports of an imminent lifting of tariffs in a protracted US-Chinese trade war. Brent crude was down 48 cents at $62.03 by 1311 GMT. The contract gained 1.3% last week. US crude was 59 cents lower at $56.65 a barrel, having risen 1.9% last week. Trump said on Saturday that trade talks with China were moving along &#8220;very nicely&#8221; but the United States would only make a deal if it was the right one for America. Trump also said there had been incorrect reporting about US [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300541","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=300541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}