{"id":343451,"date":"2020-03-25T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343451"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T08:28:45","slug":"oil-extends-gains-as-optimism-over-us-stimulus-lifts-global-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-extends-gains-as-optimism-over-us-stimulus-lifts-global-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil extends gains as optimism over US stimulus lifts global markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended gains for a third session on Wednesday, rising alongside broader financial markets on hopes Washington will soon approve a massive aid package to stem the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. crude touched a high of $25.24 a barrel early in the session and was at $24.82 a barrel, up 81 cents, or 3.4%, by 0412 GMT. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was trading up 75 cents, or 2.8%, at $27.90 a barrel after rising to a high of $28.29. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Congress may vote on Wednesday on the $2 trillion stimulus after Republicans and Democrats said they were close to a deal, with optimism over the package fueling a surge in stock markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices extended gains for a third session on Wednesday, rising alongside broader financial markets on hopes Washington will soon approve a massive aid package to stem the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. crude touched a high of $25.24 a barrel early in the session and was at $24.82 a barrel, up 81 cents, or 3.4%, by 0412 GMT. Brent crude was trading up 75 cents, or 2.8%, at $27.90 a barrel after rising to a high of $28.29. The U.S. Congress may vote on Wednesday on the $2 trillion stimulus after Republicans and Democrats said they were [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343451","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=343451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}