{"id":306917,"date":"2019-12-23T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306917"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:39:10","slug":"oil-steady-amid-us-china-trade-deal-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steady-amid-us-china-trade-deal-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steady amid US-China trade deal optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices were mostly steady on Monday after three weeks of gains amid optimism the United States and China were close to signing a trade deal to end a tariff war, with President Donald Trump saying an agreement would be signed &#8220;very shortly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 4 cents at $66.10 a barrel by 0100 GMT. West Texas Intermediate was also down 4 cents at $60.40 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>A so-called phase one deal was announced earlier in December as part of a bid to end the months-long tit-for-tat trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies, which has sent shockwaves through markets and roiled global growth.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is to agree to reduce some tariffs in return for a big increase in purchases by Chinese importers of American farm products, according to the deal that is due to be signed in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices were mostly steady on Monday after three weeks of gains amid optimism the United States and China were close to signing a trade deal to end a tariff war, with President Donald Trump saying an agreement would be signed &#8220;very shortly&#8221;. Brent crude was down 4 cents at $66.10 a barrel by 0100 GMT. West Texas Intermediate was also down 4 cents at $60.40 a barrel. A so-called phase one deal was announced earlier in December as part of a bid to end the months-long tit-for-tat trade war between the world&#8217;s two largest economies, which has sent [&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-306917","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\/306917","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=306917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}