{"id":301882,"date":"2019-11-20T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301882"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:36:15","slug":"oil-prices-steady-after-2-day-drop-amid-growth-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-steady-after-2-day-drop-amid-growth-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices steady after 2-day drop amid growth concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Wednesday, after falling the past two days, as a surge in U.S. 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%, to $55.32 a barrel by 0252 GMT, after falling 4.3% during the previous two sessions. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were at $60.93 a barrel, up 2 cents, or 0.03%. Brent dropped 3.8% during the prior two sessions. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. crude inventories rose 6 million barrels in the week to Nov. 15 to 445.9 million, compared with analysts&#8217; expectations for an increase of 1.5 million barrels, data from industry group the American Petroleum Institute showed late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Wednesday, after falling the past two days, as a surge in U.S. 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%, to $55.32 a barrel by 0252 GMT, after falling 4.3% during the previous two sessions. Brent crude futures were at $60.93 a barrel, up 2 cents, or 0.03%. Brent dropped 3.8% during the prior two sessions. U.S. crude inventories rose 6 million barrels in the week to Nov. [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301882","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=301882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}