{"id":363889,"date":"2020-07-21T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363889"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T05:15:42","slug":"oil-prices-steady-as-coronavirus-vaccine-news-counters-rise-in-virus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-steady-as-coronavirus-vaccine-news-counters-rise-in-virus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices steady as coronavirus vaccine news counters rise in virus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO : Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, trapped in the narrow trading band of the past three weeks as investors gauged hopes for a recovery in oil demand against fears of new lockdowns due to a growing number of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Prices were offered some support by positive news on the development of vaccines as drugmakers and medical institutions rush to find a way to counter the world&#8217;s worst health crisis in a century.<\/p>\n<p>Brent futures were up 15 cents, or 0.4%, at $43.43 by 0117 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) edged up 2 cents to $40.83.<\/p>\n<p>The closing prices of both Brent and WTI have traded within a $2 channel so far this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO : Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, trapped in the narrow trading band of the past three weeks as investors gauged hopes for a recovery in oil demand against fears of new lockdowns due to a growing number of coronavirus cases. Prices were offered some support by positive news on the development of vaccines as drugmakers and medical institutions rush to find a way to counter the world&#8217;s worst health crisis in a century. Brent futures were up 15 cents, or 0.4%, at $43.43 by 0117 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) edged up 2 cents to $40.83. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363889","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}