{"id":302313,"date":"2019-11-22T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302313"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:49:42","slug":"oil-drops-as-us-china-standoff-extends-beyond-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drops-as-us-china-standoff-extends-beyond-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drops as US-China standoff extends beyond trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged lower on Thursday as fresh tensions between the United States and China over protests in Hong Kong fuelled concern that a deal to end a trade war between the world&#8217;s top two economies may be further delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell 44 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $61.96 a barrel by 0951 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate crude was down 36 cents, or 0.6 per cent, at $56.65.<\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks had risen strongly on Wednesday due to bullish data on US crude inventories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/SINGAPORE: Oil prices edged lower on Thursday as fresh tensions between the United States and China over protests in Hong Kong fuelled concern that a deal to end a trade war between the world&#8217;s top two economies may be further delayed. Brent crude fell 44 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $61.96 a barrel by 0951 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate crude was down 36 cents, or 0.6 per cent, at $56.65. Both benchmarks had risen strongly on Wednesday due to bullish data on US crude inventories.<\/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-302313","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\/302313","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=302313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}