{"id":355314,"date":"2020-06-03T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=355314"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T06:35:35","slug":"crude-oil-prices-rise-nearly-3-ahead-of-opec-meeting-easing-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-rise-nearly-3-ahead-of-opec-meeting-easing-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices rise nearly 3% ahead of Opec+ meeting, easing lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices were up about $1 a barrel on Tuesday on expectations that major producers will agree to extend output cuts during a video conference likely to be held this week and as countries and US states begin to restart after coronavirus lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude rose 2.7 per cent, or $1.04, to $39.36 a barrel by 11:37 a.m. EDT (1537 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) climbed 2.5 per cent, or 87 cents, to $36.31 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices were up about $1 a barrel on Tuesday on expectations that major producers will agree to extend output cuts during a video conference likely to be held this week and as countries and US states begin to restart after coronavirus lockdowns. Brent crude rose 2.7 per cent, or $1.04, to $39.36 a barrel by 11:37 a.m. EDT (1537 GMT). US West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) climbed 2.5 per cent, or 87 cents, to $36.31 a barrel.<\/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-355314","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\/355314","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=355314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}