{"id":347952,"date":"2020-04-23T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347952"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:57:36","slug":"brent-crude-rises-after-coronavirus-drags-it-to-lowest-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-crude-rises-after-coronavirus-drags-it-to-lowest-since-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude rises after coronavirus drags it to lowest since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON : Brent crude oil sank below $16 a barrel to its lowest since 1999 on Wednesday, before recovering slightly on the prospect of extra pledges to cut output in addition to a pact by major producers to limit supplies.<\/p>\n<p>International benchmark Brent crude, which fell 24% in the previous session, touched $15.98 a barrel on Wednesday, hitting its lowest since June 1999. By 1225 GMT, it had recovered to $21.16, up $1.83 or 9.5%.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate was up $2.26 or 20%, at $13.83.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON : Brent crude oil sank below $16 a barrel to its lowest since 1999 on Wednesday, before recovering slightly on the prospect of extra pledges to cut output in addition to a pact by major producers to limit supplies. International benchmark Brent crude, which fell 24% in the previous session, touched $15.98 a barrel on Wednesday, hitting its lowest since June 1999. By 1225 GMT, it had recovered to $21.16, up $1.83 or 9.5%. U.S. West Texas Intermediate was up $2.26 or 20%, at $13.83.<\/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-347952","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\/347952","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=347952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}