{"id":364917,"date":"2020-07-27T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364917"},"modified":"2020-07-27T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:52:45","slug":"oil-slips-as-rising-coronavirus-cases-us-china-tensions-weigh-on-markets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slips-as-rising-coronavirus-cases-us-china-tensions-weigh-on-markets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slips as rising coronavirus cases, US-China tensions weigh on markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged down on Monday as rising coronavirus cases and tensions between the United States and China pushed investors toward safe-haven assets.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude dipped 10 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $43.24 a barrel by 0041 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $41.24 a barrel, down 5 cents.<\/p>\n<p>The fall in oil mirrored moves in broader financial markets in Asia amid concerns about escalating tensions between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies following the closure of embassies in Houston and Chengdu. Global coronavirus cases, meanwhile, exceeded 16 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged down on Monday as rising coronavirus cases and tensions between the United States and China pushed investors toward safe-haven assets. Brent crude dipped 10 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $43.24 a barrel by 0041 GMT while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $41.24 a barrel, down 5 cents. The fall in oil mirrored moves in broader financial markets in Asia amid concerns about escalating tensions between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies following the closure of embassies in Houston and Chengdu. Global coronavirus cases, meanwhile, exceeded 16 million.<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364917","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=364917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}