{"id":346801,"date":"2020-04-15T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346801"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T06:00:45","slug":"crude-oil-prices-rise-on-bargain-hunting-hopes-for-stockpile-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-rise-on-bargain-hunting-hopes-for-stockpile-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices rise on bargain-hunting, hopes for stockpile purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices rose on Wednesday as investors looked for bargains after the previous session&#8217;s slump and on hopes that consuming countries will look to fill their strategic reserves, although oversupply fears and warnings of a deep recession capped gains.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were up 38 cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $29.98 a barrel as of 0201 GMT, after falling 6.7 per cent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 36 cents, or 1.8 per cent, at $20.47, having crashed 10.3 per cent in the previous session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices rose on Wednesday as investors looked for bargains after the previous session&#8217;s slump and on hopes that consuming countries will look to fill their strategic reserves, although oversupply fears and warnings of a deep recession capped gains. Brent futures were up 38 cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $29.98 a barrel as of 0201 GMT, after falling 6.7 per cent on Tuesday. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 36 cents, or 1.8 per cent, at $20.47, having crashed 10.3 per cent in the previous session.<\/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-346801","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\/346801","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=346801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}