{"id":352028,"date":"2020-05-19T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352028"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:38:21","slug":"oil-on-track-for-2-month-high-as-lockdowns-ease-positive-vaccine-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-on-track-for-2-month-high-as-lockdowns-ease-positive-vaccine-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil on track for 2-month high as lockdowns ease, positive vaccine results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped on Monday, with both US and Brent benchmarks on track for their highest settles in two months, supported by positive early results on a potential coronavirus vaccine and optimism about resumption in economic activity. <\/p>\n<p>Brent futures for July delivery rose $2.25, or 6.9%, to $34.75 a barrel by 1:34 p.m. EDT (1734 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $2.16, or 7.3%, to $31.59.<\/p>\n<p>That puts both Brent and WTI on track for their highest settles since March 11.<\/p>\n<p>Early data from Moderna Inc&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, showed that it produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices jumped on Monday, with both US and Brent benchmarks on track for their highest settles in two months, supported by positive early results on a potential coronavirus vaccine and optimism about resumption in economic activity. Brent futures for July delivery rose $2.25, or 6.9%, to $34.75 a barrel by 1:34 p.m. EDT (1734 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose $2.16, or 7.3%, to $31.59. That puts both Brent and WTI on track for their highest settles since March 11. Early data from Moderna Inc&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352028","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=352028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}