{"id":345111,"date":"2020-04-03T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345111"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:28:29","slug":"oil-jumps-as-trump-talks-up-truce-hopes-for-saudi-russia-price-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-jumps-as-trump-talks-up-truce-hopes-for-saudi-russia-price-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil jumps as Trump talks up truce hopes for Saudi-Russia price war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures surged on Thursday after US President Donald Trump said he expected Saudi Arabia and Russia to reach a deal soon to end their oil price war and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a solution to \u201cchallenging\u201d oil markets.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 5.9 per cent, or $1.46, to $26.20 as of 0418 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 4.6 per cent or 94 cents, at $21.25.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he had talked recently with the leaders of both Russia and Saudi Arabia and believed the two countries would make a deal to end their price war within a \u201cfew days\u201d \u2013 lowering production and bringing prices back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crude oil futures surged on Thursday after US President Donald Trump said he expected Saudi Arabia and Russia to reach a deal soon to end their oil price war and Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a solution to \u201cchallenging\u201d oil markets. Brent crude futures rose 5.9 per cent, or $1.46, to $26.20 as of 0418 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 4.6 per cent or 94 cents, at $21.25. Trump said he had talked recently with the leaders of both Russia and Saudi Arabia and believed the two countries would make a deal to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345111","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=345111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}