{"id":310503,"date":"2020-01-15T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310503"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T08:41:13","slug":"oil-extends-decline-as-supply-disruption-fears-recede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-extends-decline-as-supply-disruption-fears-recede\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil extends decline as supply disruption fears recede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid towards $64 a barrel on Tuesday, extending four straight days of declines due to easing concerns of possible supply disruptions as a result of tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 11 cents, or 0.19 per cent, at $64.08 per barrel by 0916 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down 22 cents or 0.4 per cent at $57.86 a barrel. The benchmarks lost about 5 per cent and 6 per cent, respectively, last week.<\/p>\n<p>The recent declines followed investors unwinding bullish positions built following the killing of a senior Iranian general in a US air strike in Iraq on Jan. 2 which sent oil prices to a four-month high, global oil strategist at BNP ParibasNSE -1.02 % in London Harry Tchilinguirian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices slid towards $64 a barrel on Tuesday, extending four straight days of declines due to easing concerns of possible supply disruptions as a result of tensions in the Middle East. Brent crude was down 11 cents, or 0.19 per cent, at $64.08 per barrel by 0916 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures were down 22 cents or 0.4 per cent at $57.86 a barrel. The benchmarks lost about 5 per cent and 6 per cent, respectively, last week. The recent declines followed investors unwinding bullish positions built following the killing of a senior Iranian general in 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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310503","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\/310503","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=310503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}