{"id":349862,"date":"2020-05-06T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349862"},"modified":"2020-05-06T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:04:25","slug":"oil-prices-fall-as-rising-us-inventories-reassert-supply-concerns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-as-rising-us-inventories-reassert-supply-concerns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall as rising US inventories reassert supply concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Wednesday, ending a multi-day streak of gains, as investors focused on oversupply risks after United States (US) crude inventories rose more than expected amid a slump in demand caused by restrictions to halt the coronavirus spread. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell as much as 2.1 per cent to $24.05 a barrel and were down 14 cents at $24.41 a barrel at 0201 GMT. WTI has snapped a five-day winning streak. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures were flat at $30.97 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>Brent prices climbed 13.9 per cent in the previous session, part of a six-day rise. Investors may be hesitant to increase their purchases of Brent as the contract has climbed too much over the past streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Wednesday, ending a multi-day streak of gains, as investors focused on oversupply risks after United States (US) crude inventories rose more than expected amid a slump in demand caused by restrictions to halt the coronavirus spread. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell as much as 2.1 per cent to $24.05 a barrel and were down 14 cents at $24.41 a barrel at 0201 GMT. WTI has snapped a five-day winning streak. Brent crude futures were flat at $30.97 a barrel. Brent prices climbed 13.9 per cent in the previous session, part of a six-day [&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-349862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349862","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=349862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}