{"id":375996,"date":"2020-09-30T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T02:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375996"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:17:21","slug":"oil-falls-as-covid-19-cases-surge-investors-cautious-ahead-of-us-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-as-covid-19-cases-surge-investors-cautious-ahead-of-us-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls as Covid-19 cases surge; investors cautious ahead of US polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Tuesday as Europe and the United States grappled with a surge in new coronavirus infections and investors were cautious ahead of the first US presidential debate. <\/p>\n<p>Brent&#8217;s November contract, which expires on Wednesday, fell 28 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $42.15 per barrel by 0921 GMT. The more-active Brent crude for December fell 31 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $42.56 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude dropped 32 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to $40.28 a barrel. <\/p>\n<p>More than one million people have died of Covid-19 worldwide as of Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy and fuel demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Tuesday as Europe and the United States grappled with a surge in new coronavirus infections and investors were cautious ahead of the first US presidential debate. Brent&#8217;s November contract, which expires on Wednesday, fell 28 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $42.15 per barrel by 0921 GMT. The more-active Brent crude for December fell 31 cents, or 0.7 per cent, to $42.56 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude dropped 32 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to $40.28 a barrel. More than one million people have died of Covid-19 worldwide as of Tuesday, according to [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375996","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=375996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}