{"id":306666,"date":"2019-12-21T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306666"},"modified":"2019-12-21T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T06:49:38","slug":"oil-declines-but-set-for-third-weekly-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-declines-but-set-for-third-weekly-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil declines but set for third weekly rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell slightly on Friday but were still set for a third straight weekly gain after easing US-China trade tensions lifted business confidence and the outlook for global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Brent was down 7 cents at $66.47 a barrel by 0954 GMT, equivalent to a weekly rise of around 2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude was down 10 cents at $61.08 per barrel, a gain of around 1.5 per cent on the week. <\/p>\n<p>Progress in a long-running trade dispute between the United States and China, the world&#8217;s two biggest oil consumers, has boosted expectations for higher energy demand next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell slightly on Friday but were still set for a third straight weekly gain after easing US-China trade tensions lifted business confidence and the outlook for global economic growth. Brent was down 7 cents at $66.47 a barrel by 0954 GMT, equivalent to a weekly rise of around 2 per cent. US West Texas Intermediate crude was down 10 cents at $61.08 per barrel, a gain of around 1.5 per cent on the week. Progress in a long-running trade dispute between the United States and China, the world&#8217;s two biggest oil consumers, has boosted expectations for higher energy [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306666","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\/306666","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=306666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}