{"id":344400,"date":"2020-03-31T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344400"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:07:44","slug":"crude-oil-rises-after-us-russia-agree-to-oil-market-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-rises-after-us-russia-agree-to-oil-market-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil rises after US, Russia agree to oil market talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil recovered some ground on Tuesday as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to discuss stablising energy markets, but prices remain near 18-year lows as the coronavirus shutdown destroys demand. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up by 19 cents, or 0.8 per cent, at $22.95 a barrel by 0051 GMT, after closing at $22.76 in the previous session, the lowest close since November 2002. US crude was up by 59 cents, or 2.9 per cent, at $20.68 a barrel, after settling down at $20.09, the lowest close since February 2002. <\/p>\n<p>Oil markets have faced a double whammy from the coronavirus outbreak and a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia after OPEC and other producers failed to agree on deeper cuts to support oil prices in early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil recovered some ground on Tuesday as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to discuss stablising energy markets, but prices remain near 18-year lows as the coronavirus shutdown destroys demand. Brent crude was up by 19 cents, or 0.8 per cent, at $22.95 a barrel by 0051 GMT, after closing at $22.76 in the previous session, the lowest close since November 2002. US crude was up by 59 cents, or 2.9 per cent, at $20.68 a barrel, after settling down at $20.09, the lowest close since February 2002. Oil markets have faced a double whammy from [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344400","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=344400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}