{"id":366465,"date":"2020-08-06T11:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366465"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:23:06","slug":"oil-prices-hit-5-month-high-as-us-crude-stocks-fall-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-hit-5-month-high-as-us-crude-stocks-fall-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices hit 5-month high as US crude stocks fall sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices rose to their highest since early March on Wednesday after a large decline in US crude inventories and supported by a weak dollar, but mounting coronavirus infections had investors worried about the demand outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up $1.51, or 3.4%, at $45.94 a barrel by 11:13 a.m. ET (1513 GMT). West Texas Intermediate oil rose $1.52, or 3.7%, to $43.22 a barrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil prices rose to their highest since early March on Wednesday after a large decline in US crude inventories and supported by a weak dollar, but mounting coronavirus infections had investors worried about the demand outlook. Brent crude was up $1.51, or 3.4%, at $45.94 a barrel by 11:13 a.m. ET (1513 GMT). West Texas Intermediate oil rose $1.52, or 3.7%, to $43.22 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-366465","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\/366465","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=366465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}