{"id":349882,"date":"2020-05-06T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349882"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:31:50","slug":"oil-prices-slide-as-us-china-tensions-offset-virus-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slide-as-us-china-tensions-offset-virus-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slide as US-China tensions offset virus hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices slipped back Wednesday after two days of gains, although Brent crude remained above $30 a barrel, as renewed US-China tensions offset optimism about the easing of coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Brent, the international benchmark, fell 1.1 percent to $30.63 a barrel in early Asian trade. On Tuesday, the contract surged 14 percent and rose above $30 for the first time since mid-April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Oil prices slipped back Wednesday after two days of gains, although Brent crude remained above $30 a barrel, as renewed US-China tensions offset optimism about the easing of coronavirus lockdowns. Brent, the international benchmark, fell 1.1 percent to $30.63 a barrel in early Asian trade. On Tuesday, the contract surged 14 percent and rose above $30 for the first time since mid-April.<\/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-349882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349882","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=349882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}