{"id":344334,"date":"2020-03-31T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344334"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:15:23","slug":"oil-prices-rebound-but-languish-near-18-year-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rebound-but-languish-near-18-year-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rebound, but languish near 18-year lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices clawed back some ground in Asian trade Tuesday after falling to 18-year lows, as the coronavirus pandemic brings economies worldwide to a standstill and throttles demand.<\/p>\n<p>US benchmark West Texas Intermediate rose 2.9 percent to just over $20 a barrel while Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.5 percent at nearly $23 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>In New York on Monday, prices struck their lowest levels since 2002, with WTI briefly falling below $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices clawed back some ground in Asian trade Tuesday after falling to 18-year lows, as the coronavirus pandemic brings economies worldwide to a standstill and throttles demand. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate rose 2.9 percent to just over $20 a barrel while Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 0.5 percent at nearly $23 a barrel. In New York on Monday, prices struck their lowest levels since 2002, with WTI briefly falling below $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344334","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}