{"id":386015,"date":"2020-11-25T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386015"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:55:18","slug":"oil-closes-at-highest-level-since-march-on-vaccine-trials-biden-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-closes-at-highest-level-since-march-on-vaccine-trials-biden-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil closes at highest level since March on vaccine trials, Biden transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose about 4% on Tuesday to touch highs not seen since March as a third promising coronavirus vaccine raised hope for fuel- demand recovery and US President-elect Joseph Biden began his transition to the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude settled at $47.86 a barrel, gaining $1.80, or 3.9%. US West Texas Intermediate crude settled at $44.91 a barrel, rising $1.85, or 4.3%. <\/p>\n<p>Both benchmarks ended at their highest close since March 5. <\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca on Monday said that its Covid-19 vaccine was 70% effective in trials and could be up to 90% effective, giving the fight against the pandemic another potential vaccine after positive results from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose about 4% on Tuesday to touch highs not seen since March as a third promising coronavirus vaccine raised hope for fuel- demand recovery and US President-elect Joseph Biden began his transition to the White House. Brent crude settled at $47.86 a barrel, gaining $1.80, or 3.9%. US West Texas Intermediate crude settled at $44.91 a barrel, rising $1.85, or 4.3%. Both benchmarks ended at their highest close since March 5. AstraZeneca on Monday said that its Covid-19 vaccine was 70% effective in trials and could be up to 90% effective, giving the fight against the pandemic another potential [&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-386015","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\/386015","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=386015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}