{"id":301750,"date":"2019-11-20T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301750"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:45:36","slug":"oil-prices-steady-after-two-day-drop-as-growth-concerns-weigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-steady-after-two-day-drop-as-growth-concerns-weigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices steady after two-day drop as growth concerns weigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices were steady on Wednesday, after falling the past two days, as a surge in US stockpiles reinforced concerns about lacklustre global economic growth amid the trade war between the United States and China, the world&#8217;s two biggest oil consumers.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 11 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $55.32 a barrel by 0252 GMT, after falling 4.3 per cent during the previous two sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $60.93 a barrel, up 2 cents, or 0.03 per cent. Brent dropped 3.8 per cent during the prior two sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices were steady on Wednesday, after falling the past two days, as a surge in US stockpiles reinforced concerns about lacklustre global economic growth amid the trade war between the United States and China, the world&#8217;s two biggest oil consumers. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 11 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $55.32 a barrel by 0252 GMT, after falling 4.3 per cent during the previous two sessions. Brent crude futures were at $60.93 a barrel, up 2 cents, or 0.03 per cent. Brent dropped 3.8 per cent during the prior two sessions.<\/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-301750","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\/301750","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=301750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}