{"id":376559,"date":"2020-10-03T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376559"},"modified":"2020-10-03T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:40:08","slug":"oil-falls-nearly-3-after-trump-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-nearly-3-after-trump-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls nearly 3% after Trump tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices extended losses to about 3% on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he has tested positive for COVID-19, while agrrement on a U.S. stimulus package eluded negotiators amid ongoing worries about demand.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude slipped on the Trump news and was down $1.12, or 2.7%, at $39.81 a barrel by 0710 GMT. U.S. oil was also down $1.12, or 2.9%, at $37.60.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and Brent cruse are heading for drops of around 5% and 6% respectively this week for a second consecutive week of declines. <\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Trump said that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices extended losses to about 3% on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he has tested positive for COVID-19, while agrrement on a U.S. stimulus package eluded negotiators amid ongoing worries about demand. Brent crude slipped on the Trump news and was down $1.12, or 2.7%, at $39.81 a barrel by 0710 GMT. U.S. oil was also down $1.12, or 2.9%, at $37.60. U.S. and Brent cruse are heading for drops of around 5% and 6% respectively this week for a second consecutive week of declines. In a tweet, Trump said that he and First Lady Melania [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376559","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\/376559","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=376559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}