{"id":365768,"date":"2020-07-31T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365768"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:18:10","slug":"oil-sinks-on-weak-us-economic-data-political-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-sinks-on-weak-us-economic-data-political-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil sinks on weak US economic data, political uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices sank on Thursday following weak US economic data and after a tweet from US President Donald Trump suggesting the nation should delay its November presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Investors sold riskier assets following Trump&#8217;s tweet about delaying the vote. The date of the US election is enshrined in the US Constitution, but Trump&#8217;s remarks were viewed as an attack on the integrity of the coming election, worrying investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices sank on Thursday following weak US economic data and after a tweet from US President Donald Trump suggesting the nation should delay its November presidential election. Investors sold riskier assets following Trump&#8217;s tweet about delaying the vote. The date of the US election is enshrined in the US Constitution, but Trump&#8217;s remarks were viewed as an attack on the integrity of the coming election, worrying investors.<\/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-365768","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\/365768","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=365768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}