{"id":302782,"date":"2019-11-26T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302782"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:36:39","slug":"oil-prices-hold-above-63-per-barrel-on-us-china-trade-talks-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-hold-above-63-per-barrel-on-us-china-trade-talks-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hold above $63 per barrel on US-China trade talks optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held above $63 per barrel on Monday as positive comments from the United States and China rekindled hopes in global markets that the world\u2019s two largest economies could soon sign an interim deal to end their trade war. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 12 cents at $63.51 a barrel by 1127 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 was flat at $57.80. <\/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<p>A move by China to protect intellectual property was also providing a supportive atmosphere for the trade talks, McCarthy added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices held above $63 per barrel on Monday as positive comments from the United States and China rekindled hopes in global markets that the world\u2019s two largest economies could soon sign an interim deal to end their trade war. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 12 cents at $63.51 a barrel by 1127 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 was flat at $57.80. \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 A move by China to protect intellectual [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302782","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=302782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}