{"id":372750,"date":"2020-09-09T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372750"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:47:21","slug":"brent-crude-prices-dive-6-hit-lowest-since-june-on-saudi-price-cut-covid-flare-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-crude-prices-dive-6-hit-lowest-since-june-on-saudi-price-cut-covid-flare-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent crude prices dive 6%, hit lowest since June on Saudi price cut, Covid flare-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil futures tumbled on Tuesday, with Brent dropping below $40 a barrel for the first time since June and US crude off more than 8%, after Saudi Arabia cut its October selling prices amid a flare-up of coronavirus cases around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus infections are rising in India, Great Britain, Spain and several parts of the United States, where the infection rate has not come under control for months. The rebound in illnesses could weaken the global economic recovery and sap fuel demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Oil futures tumbled on Tuesday, with Brent dropping below $40 a barrel for the first time since June and US crude off more than 8%, after Saudi Arabia cut its October selling prices amid a flare-up of coronavirus cases around the world. Coronavirus infections are rising in India, Great Britain, Spain and several parts of the United States, where the infection rate has not come under control for months. The rebound in illnesses could weaken the global economic recovery and sap fuel demand.<\/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-372750","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\/372750","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=372750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}