{"id":303580,"date":"2019-11-30T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T04:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303580"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:31:13","slug":"oil-prices-slip-4-but-stage-set-for-monthly-gains-ahead-of-opec-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slip-4-but-stage-set-for-monthly-gains-ahead-of-opec-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slip 4%, but stage set for monthly gains ahead of OPEC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell nearly 4% on Friday in muted activity because of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, but were still set for monthly gains as OPEC watchers expect an extension next week to a pact to throttle oil output beyond March. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were down $1.20 at $62.67 a barrel by 10:33 a.m. EST (1533 GMT), but remained on track for their biggest monthly gain since April with a rise of about 4.1%. <\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were down $1.90 at $56.21, on course for a decline of 2.8% on the week, after three consecutive increases. On a monthly basis, WTI is poised for a jump of about 3.6%, its highest since June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell nearly 4% on Friday in muted activity because of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, but were still set for monthly gains as OPEC watchers expect an extension next week to a pact to throttle oil output beyond March. Brent crude futures were down $1.20 at $62.67 a barrel by 10:33 a.m. EST (1533 GMT), but remained on track for their biggest monthly gain since April with a rise of about 4.1%. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were down $1.90 at $56.21, on course for a decline of 2.8% on the week, after three consecutive increases. On a monthly [&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-303580","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\/303580","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=303580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}