{"id":301596,"date":"2019-11-19T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301596"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:18:34","slug":"oil-prices-fall-more-than-1-per-cent-on-uncertainty-over-us-china-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-more-than-1-per-cent-on-uncertainty-over-us-china-trade-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall more than 1 per cent on uncertainty over US-China trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell more than 1 per cent, erasing much of last week&#8217;s gains and tumbling alongside US stocks on uncertainty over a trade deal between the United States (US) and China.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures settled at $62.44 a barrel, down 86 cents, or 1.4 per cent. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended 67 cents, or 1.2 per cent, lower at $57.05 a barrel. Both benchmarks posted their second straight weekly gain last week, with Brent rising 1.3 per cent and WTI up 0.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street&#8217;s three main stock indexes also fell from last week&#8217;s record highs following a report that stoked concerns a US-China trade deal might not get through, which pushed oil prices lower, analysts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell more than 1 per cent, erasing much of last week&#8217;s gains and tumbling alongside US stocks on uncertainty over a trade deal between the United States (US) and China. Brent crude futures settled at $62.44 a barrel, down 86 cents, or 1.4 per cent. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended 67 cents, or 1.2 per cent, lower at $57.05 a barrel. Both benchmarks posted their second straight weekly gain last week, with Brent rising 1.3 per cent and WTI up 0.8 per cent. Wall Street&#8217;s three main stock indexes also fell from last week&#8217;s record highs following [&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-301596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301596","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=301596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}