{"id":306313,"date":"2019-12-19T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306313"},"modified":"2019-12-19T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T06:17:23","slug":"oil-skids-as-us-inventories-pile-up-but-demand-hopes-stem-bigger-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-skids-as-us-inventories-pile-up-but-demand-hopes-stem-bigger-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil skids as US inventories pile up, but demand hopes stem bigger drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices dropped on Wednesday after US industry data showed a surprise build in crude inventories, but expectations for firmer demand next year kept losses in check.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures dropped 38 cents, or 0.57 per cent, to $65.72 a barrel by 0730 GMT on Wednesday. The international benchmark rose 1.2 per cent to $66.10 a barrel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 46 cents, or 0.75 per cent, to $60.48 per barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices dropped on Wednesday after US industry data showed a surprise build in crude inventories, but expectations for firmer demand next year kept losses in check. Brent crude futures dropped 38 cents, or 0.57 per cent, to $65.72 a barrel by 0730 GMT on Wednesday. The international benchmark rose 1.2 per cent to $66.10 a barrel on Tuesday. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 46 cents, or 0.75 per cent, to $60.48 per barrel.<\/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-306313","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\/306313","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=306313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}