{"id":361865,"date":"2020-07-08T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361865"},"modified":"2020-07-08T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:13:06","slug":"crude-oil-prices-slip-as-us-virus-spike-stokes-demand-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-slip-as-us-virus-spike-stokes-demand-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices slip as US virus spike stokes demand worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday amid concerns that a surge in new coronavirus cases, especially in the United States, will hamper any recovery in fuel demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures declined by 7 cents, or 0.16 per cent, to $43.03, by 1404 GMT, after hitting a session low of $42.46. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 12 cents, or 0.30 per cent, to $40.51 a barrel, having fallen to $39.90 earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oil prices are lower today on concerns that the surge in coronavirus cases in the US will limit a recovery in fuel demand,&#8221; bank RBC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday amid concerns that a surge in new coronavirus cases, especially in the United States, will hamper any recovery in fuel demand. Brent crude futures declined by 7 cents, or 0.16 per cent, to $43.03, by 1404 GMT, after hitting a session low of $42.46. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 12 cents, or 0.30 per cent, to $40.51 a barrel, having fallen to $39.90 earlier in the day. &#8220;Oil prices are lower today on concerns that the surge in coronavirus cases in the US will limit a recovery in fuel demand,&#8221; [&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-361865","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\/361865","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=361865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}