{"id":365770,"date":"2020-07-31T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365770"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:18:36","slug":"crude-oil-prices-slide-as-virus-surge-weighs-on-demand-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/crude-oil-prices-slide-as-virus-surge-weighs-on-demand-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude oil prices slide as virus surge weighs on demand outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices fell on Thursday, as surging coronavirus infections around the world threatened to jeopardise a recovery in fuel demand just as major oil producers are set to raise output.<\/p>\n<p>The most-active Brent crude contract for October fell 51 cents, or 1.2%, to $43.58 a barrel at 0907 GMT. The September Brent contract, which is expiring on Friday, fell 56 cents to $43.19 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 60 cents, or 1.5%, at $40.67 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oil prices fell on Thursday, as surging coronavirus infections around the world threatened to jeopardise a recovery in fuel demand just as major oil producers are set to raise output. The most-active Brent crude contract for October fell 51 cents, or 1.2%, to $43.58 a barrel at 0907 GMT. The September Brent contract, which is expiring on Friday, fell 56 cents to $43.19 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 60 cents, or 1.5%, at $40.67 a barrel.<\/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-365770","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\/365770","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=365770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}