{"id":338322,"date":"2020-02-20T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338322"},"modified":"2020-02-20T12:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:48:40","slug":"oil-up-2-5-on-slowing-pace-of-coronavirus-us-move-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-up-2-5-on-slowing-pace-of-coronavirus-us-move-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil up 2.5% on slowing pace of coronavirus, US move on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices rose 2.5% on Wednesday as demand worries eased with a slowing of new coronavirus cases in China and supply curtailed by a U.S. move to cut more Venezuelan crude from the market.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up $1.47, or 2.6%, at $59.22 a barrel by 12:17 p.m. EST (1716 GMT). U.S. oil was up $1.23 , or 2.4%, at $53.28 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Official data showed new coronavirus cases in China fell for a second straight day, although the World Health Organization said there was not enough data to know if the epidemic was being contained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices rose 2.5% on Wednesday as demand worries eased with a slowing of new coronavirus cases in China and supply curtailed by a U.S. move to cut more Venezuelan crude from the market. Brent crude was up $1.47, or 2.6%, at $59.22 a barrel by 12:17 p.m. EST (1716 GMT). U.S. oil was up $1.23 , or 2.4%, at $53.28 a barrel. Official data showed new coronavirus cases in China fell for a second straight day, although the World Health Organization said there was not enough data to know if the epidemic was being contained.<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338322","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=338322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}