{"id":304217,"date":"2019-12-05T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304217"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T05:48:29","slug":"oil-steadies-after-price-jump-investors-wait-on-opec-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steadies-after-price-jump-investors-wait-on-opec-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steadies after price jump; investors wait on Opec meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices edged lower in muted trading on Thursday ahead of the start of Opec meetings later in the day, steadying after the previous session&#8217;s steep gains on a sharp drop in US crude inventories and expectations of more output cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures dipped 10 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $62.90 a barrel by 0112 GMT. Brent surged 3.6 per cent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 22 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $58.21 a barrel. They settled up 4.2 per cent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices edged lower in muted trading on Thursday ahead of the start of Opec meetings later in the day, steadying after the previous session&#8217;s steep gains on a sharp drop in US crude inventories and expectations of more output cuts. Brent crude futures dipped 10 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $62.90 a barrel by 0112 GMT. Brent surged 3.6 per cent on Wednesday. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 22 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to $58.21 a barrel. They settled up 4.2 per cent on Wednesday.<\/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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304217","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\/304217","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=304217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}