{"id":307792,"date":"2019-12-30T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307792"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:40:55","slug":"oil-steady-on-trade-pact-optimism-stock-draw-eyes-on-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steady-on-trade-pact-optimism-stock-draw-eyes-on-west-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steady on trade pact optimism, stock draw; eyes on West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hovered around three-month highs on Monday following a higher-than-expected crude inventory drawdown and optimism over an expected US-China trade deal, while traders kept a close eye on unrest in West Asia. <\/p>\n<p>Markets showed little immediate reaction to news of US air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group, even as US officials warned \u201cadditional actions\u201d may be taken. <\/p>\n<p>West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures edged up 1 cent to $61.73 a barrel by 0210 GMT. The US benchmark is up about 36 per cent so far this year. Brent crude futures were at $68.28 a barrel, up 12 cents. The international benchmark has risen around 27 per cent in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices hovered around three-month highs on Monday following a higher-than-expected crude inventory drawdown and optimism over an expected US-China trade deal, while traders kept a close eye on unrest in West Asia. Markets showed little immediate reaction to news of US air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group, even as US officials warned \u201cadditional actions\u201d may be taken. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures edged up 1 cent to $61.73 a barrel by 0210 GMT. The US benchmark is up about 36 per cent so far this year. Brent crude futures were at $68.28 a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307792","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=307792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}