{"id":337010,"date":"2020-02-12T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=337010"},"modified":"2020-02-12T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:38:38","slug":"oil-prices-rise-as-new-virus-cases-slow-easing-chinese-demand-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-as-new-virus-cases-slow-easing-chinese-demand-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise as new virus cases slow, easing Chinese demand concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Oil prices rose for a second day on Wednesday amid preliminary signs that new coronavirus cases are slowing in China, easing concerns over the demand impact from the disease in the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up 73 cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $54.75 per barrel at 0137 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 46 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $50.39.<\/p>\n<p>According to data through Monday, the growth rate of new coronavirus cases in China has slowed to the lowest since Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: Oil prices rose for a second day on Wednesday amid preliminary signs that new coronavirus cases are slowing in China, easing concerns over the demand impact from the disease in the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer. Brent crude was up 73 cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $54.75 per barrel at 0137 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 46 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $50.39. According to data through Monday, the growth rate of new coronavirus cases in China has slowed to the lowest since Jan. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-337010","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\/337010","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}