{"id":363974,"date":"2020-07-21T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363974"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T06:53:17","slug":"oil-eases-amid-rising-coronavirus-cases-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-eases-amid-rising-coronavirus-cases-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil eases amid rising coronavirus cases worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday, unnerved by the prospect that a recovery in fuel demand could be derailed by a rise in the pace of coronavirus infections around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was down 25 cents, or 0.6%, at $42.89 a barrel by 0353 GMT, after dropping slightly last week. US oil was off by 22 cents, or 0.5%, at $40.37 a barrel, after gaining 4 cents last week.<\/p>\n<p>More than 14.5 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus globally and more than 604,000 have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the pathogen, according to a Reuters tally. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe risks of a second COVID-19 torpedo to world growth grow increasingly likely by the day,\u201d said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at OANDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Monday, unnerved by the prospect that a recovery in fuel demand could be derailed by a rise in the pace of coronavirus infections around the world. Brent crude was down 25 cents, or 0.6%, at $42.89 a barrel by 0353 GMT, after dropping slightly last week. US oil was off by 22 cents, or 0.5%, at $40.37 a barrel, after gaining 4 cents last week. More than 14.5 million people have been infected by the novel coronavirus globally and more than 604,000 have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the pathogen, according to a Reuters [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363974","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=363974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}