{"id":376938,"date":"2020-10-06T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376938"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T04:08:04","slug":"oil-prices-claw-back-2-after-upbeat-signals-from-donald-trump-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-claw-back-2-after-upbeat-signals-from-donald-trump-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices claw back 2% after upbeat signals from Donald Trump doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose about 2% on Monday, lifted by comments from doctors for U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting he could be discharged from hospital as soon as Monday, just a few days after his positive test for COVID-19 sparked widespread alarm. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s health update eased political uncertainty in global markets, pushing Brent up to $39.96 a barrel by 0232 GMT, gaining 69 cents or 1.8%. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $37.81 a barrel, up 76 cents, or 2.1%. <\/p>\n<p>Prices had slumped more than 4% on Friday amid uncertainty surrounding Trump&#8217;s health, adding to concern that rising coronavirus case numbers that could dampen global economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE (Reuters) &#8211; Oil prices rose about 2% on Monday, lifted by comments from doctors for U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting he could be discharged from hospital as soon as Monday, just a few days after his positive test for COVID-19 sparked widespread alarm. Trump&#8217;s health update eased political uncertainty in global markets, pushing Brent up to $39.96 a barrel by 0232 GMT, gaining 69 cents or 1.8%. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $37.81 a barrel, up 76 cents, or 2.1%. Prices had slumped more than 4% on Friday amid uncertainty surrounding Trump&#8217;s health, adding to concern [&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-376938","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\/376938","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=376938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}