{"id":382727,"date":"2020-11-06T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T05:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382727"},"modified":"2020-11-06T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:14:40","slug":"oil-drops-as-us-election-uncertainty-dominates-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drops-as-us-election-uncertainty-dominates-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drops as US election uncertainty dominates markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to the White House in a nail-biting US presidential election, though doubts remain over further huge stimulus to bolster the ecomony in the face of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell 33 cents, or 0.8%, to $40.90 a barrel by 0927 GMT and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 39 cents, or 1%, at $38.76. Both contracts had jumped around 4% on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden predicted victory over President Donald Trump after winning two critical US states while the Republican incumbent alleged fraud, filed lawsuits and demanded recounts in a bitter contest that has yet to be decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices fell on Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden edged closer to the White House in a nail-biting US presidential election, though doubts remain over further huge stimulus to bolster the ecomony in the face of the coronavirus crisis. Brent crude fell 33 cents, or 0.8%, to $40.90 a barrel by 0927 GMT and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was down 39 cents, or 1%, at $38.76. Both contracts had jumped around 4% on Wednesday. Biden predicted victory over President Donald Trump after winning two critical US states while the Republican incumbent alleged fraud, filed lawsuits and demanded recounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382727","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}