{"id":316340,"date":"2020-01-24T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=316340"},"modified":"2020-01-24T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:12:52","slug":"oil-falls-2-per-cent-as-concern-over-china-virus-threatens-fuel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-2-per-cent-as-concern-over-china-virus-threatens-fuel-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls 2 per cent as concern over China virus threatens fuel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell 2 per cent on Thursday on concern that the spread of a virus from China could lower fuel demand if it stunts economic growth, but losses were limited by a drawdown in U.S. crude inventories.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell $1.17, or 1.9 per cent, to settle at $62.04 a barrel. The session low was $61.25, the lowest since early December.<\/p>\n<p>United States (US) West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended down $1.15, or 2 per cent, at $55.59 a barrel, after hitting $54.77, its lowest since November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell 2 per cent on Thursday on concern that the spread of a virus from China could lower fuel demand if it stunts economic growth, but losses were limited by a drawdown in U.S. crude inventories. Brent crude futures fell $1.17, or 1.9 per cent, to settle at $62.04 a barrel. The session low was $61.25, the lowest since early December. United States (US) West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude ended down $1.15, or 2 per cent, at $55.59 a barrel, after hitting $54.77, its lowest since November.<\/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-316340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316340","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=316340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}