{"id":302655,"date":"2019-11-25T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302655"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:54:36","slug":"oil-kicks-off-week-with-gains-on-fresh-hopes-for-us-china-trade-talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-kicks-off-week-with-gains-on-fresh-hopes-for-us-china-trade-talks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil kicks off week with gains on fresh hopes for US-China trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices began the week on a brighter note on Monday, posting early gains as positive noises from Washington over the weekend rekindled optimism in global markets that the United States and China could soon sign a deal to end their bitter trade war.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 10 cents, or 0.17 per cent to $57.87 a barrel by 0220 GMT, having ended last week little changed after tracking ups and downs in the trade talks process. Brent crude futures were at $63.46 was up 7 cents, or 0.11 per cent, the benchmark having also finished little changed last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still all about trade talks,\u201d said Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney. \u201cIt seems to be dominating markets action at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices began the week on a brighter note on Monday, posting early gains as positive noises from Washington over the weekend rekindled optimism in global markets that the United States and China could soon sign a deal to end their bitter trade war. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 10 cents, or 0.17 per cent to $57.87 a barrel by 0220 GMT, having ended last week little changed after tracking ups and downs in the trade talks process. Brent crude futures were at $63.46 was up 7 cents, or 0.11 per cent, the benchmark having also finished little changed [&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-302655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302655","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=302655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}