{"id":339421,"date":"2020-02-28T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339421"},"modified":"2020-02-28T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:56:02","slug":"oil-prices-fall-for-fifth-day-to-lowest-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-for-fifth-day-to-lowest-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall for fifth day to lowest in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell 2 per cent on Thursday, plunging for fifth day to their lowest since January 2019 as a rise in new coronavirus cases outside China fuelled fears of a pandemic that could slow the global economy and dent demand for crude.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down $1.06, or 2 per cent, at $52.37 a barrel at 1011 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures fell by 97 cents, or 2 per cent, to $47.76 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the start of the coronavirus outbreak erupted in China, the number of new coronavirus infections outside China exceeded new Chinese cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell 2 per cent on Thursday, plunging for fifth day to their lowest since January 2019 as a rise in new coronavirus cases outside China fuelled fears of a pandemic that could slow the global economy and dent demand for crude. Brent crude was down $1.06, or 2 per cent, at $52.37 a barrel at 1011 GMT. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures fell by 97 cents, or 2 per cent, to $47.76 a barrel. For the first time since the start of the coronavirus outbreak erupted in China, the number of new coronavirus infections outside China exceeded new [&hellip;]<\/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-339421","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\/339421","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=339421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}