{"id":310625,"date":"2020-01-16T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310625"},"modified":"2020-01-16T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:05:05","slug":"oil-prices-jump-as-china-agrees-to-more-us-energy-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-jump-as-china-agrees-to-more-us-energy-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices jump as China agrees to more US energy purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Thursday, propelled higher by the long-anticipated signing of an initial trade deal between Washington and Beijing that sets the stage for a potentially huge increase in energy supplies from the United States to China.<\/p>\n<p>Brent was 33 cents, or 0.5 per cent, higher at $64.33 a barrel by 0118 GMT, while US crude was up by 28 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $58.09 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Under the so-called Phase 1 deal to call a truce in a trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies, China committed to buying over $50 billion more of US oil, liquefied natural gas and other energy products over two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Thursday, propelled higher by the long-anticipated signing of an initial trade deal between Washington and Beijing that sets the stage for a potentially huge increase in energy supplies from the United States to China. Brent was 33 cents, or 0.5 per cent, higher at $64.33 a barrel by 0118 GMT, while US crude was up by 28 cents, or 0.5 per cent, at $58.09 a barrel. Under the so-called Phase 1 deal to call a truce in a trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies, China committed to buying over $50 billion more of US [&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-310625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310625","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=310625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}