{"id":307149,"date":"2019-12-24T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307149"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:27:49","slug":"oil-slides-as-russia-touts-easing-opec-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slides-as-russia-touts-easing-opec-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slides as Russia touts easing Opec+ output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices fell on Monday as Russia said an OPEC-led producer group may consider easing output cuts next year, offsetting support from some investor optimism that an initial U.S.-China trade deal would be signed soon.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 21 cents, or 0.3%, at $65.96 per barrel by 10:32 a.m. ET (1532 GMT) in thin trading ahead of the Christmas holiday. West Texas Intermediate was down 21 cents, or 0.4%, at $60.23 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other top producing nations led by Russia agreed this month to extend and deepen output cuts in the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices fell on Monday as Russia said an OPEC-led producer group may consider easing output cuts next year, offsetting support from some investor optimism that an initial U.S.-China trade deal would be signed soon. Brent crude was down 21 cents, or 0.3%, at $65.96 per barrel by 10:32 a.m. ET (1532 GMT) in thin trading ahead of the Christmas holiday. West Texas Intermediate was down 21 cents, or 0.4%, at $60.23 a barrel. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other top producing nations led by Russia agreed this month to extend and deepen output cuts [&hellip;]<\/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-307149","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\/307149","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=307149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}