{"id":310816,"date":"2020-01-17T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310816"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:15:18","slug":"oil-steady-ahead-of-data-confirming-sluggish-china-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-steady-ahead-of-data-confirming-sluggish-china-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil steady ahead of data confirming sluggish China growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Friday as investors braced for data expected to show China&#8217;s economic growth last year slid to its slowest pace in 29 years, holding on to gains for now after Washington and Beijing inked a long-awaited trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>Brent was 3 cents higher at $64.65 by 6:53 am IST, after gaining nearly 1 per cent on Thursday. US crude was up 6 cents at $58.58 a barrel, having risen more than 1 per cent the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>The Phase 1 accord between the world&#8217;s top two economies helped boosted the outlook for global trade, pushing oil prices higher on Thursday. That mood was further boosted after the US Senate approved changes to the US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement following the signing of the Phase 1 deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices were steady on Friday as investors braced for data expected to show China&#8217;s economic growth last year slid to its slowest pace in 29 years, holding on to gains for now after Washington and Beijing inked a long-awaited trade deal. Brent was 3 cents higher at $64.65 by 6:53 am IST, after gaining nearly 1 per cent on Thursday. US crude was up 6 cents at $58.58 a barrel, having risen more than 1 per cent the previous session. The Phase 1 accord between the world&#8217;s top two economies helped boosted the outlook for global trade, pushing oil [&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-310816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310816","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=310816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}