{"id":360226,"date":"2020-06-30T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=360226"},"modified":"2020-06-30T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T04:56:25","slug":"oil-prices-slip-as-weak-japan-data-exposes-market-jitters-over-fragile-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-slip-as-weak-japan-data-exposes-market-jitters-over-fragile-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices slip as weak Japan data exposes market jitters over fragile demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices fell in early trade on Tuesday after weak Japanese industrial production data, not usually a market-moving factor, was enough to jangle trader nerves over a bumpy recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus pandemic restrictions ease.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures briefly traded higher then fell 38 cents, or 1%, to $39.32 a barrel by 0038 GMT, after climbing 3% on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures for September fell 32 cents, or 0.8%, to $41.53 a barrel, paring Monday&#8217;s 92-cent gain. There were no early trades on the August contract, which rose 69 cents on Monday and expires on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices fell in early trade on Tuesday after weak Japanese industrial production data, not usually a market-moving factor, was enough to jangle trader nerves over a bumpy recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus pandemic restrictions ease. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures briefly traded higher then fell 38 cents, or 1%, to $39.32 a barrel by 0038 GMT, after climbing 3% on Monday. Brent crude futures for September fell 32 cents, or 0.8%, to $41.53 a barrel, paring Monday&#8217;s 92-cent gain. There were no early trades on the August contract, which rose 69 cents on Monday and [&hellip;]<\/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-360226","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\/360226","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=360226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}