{"id":386035,"date":"2020-11-25T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386035"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:01:46","slug":"brent-hits-highest-since-march-spurred-by-coronavirus-vaccine-hopes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brent-hits-highest-since-march-spurred-by-coronavirus-vaccine-hopes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent hits highest since March, spurred by coronavirus vaccine hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude prices hit their highest levels since March as news of a third promising vaccine candidate spurred hopes of a quick recovery in oil demand, while US President-elect Joe Biden received the go-ahead to begin his presidential transition. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 34 cents, or 0.7%, to $46.40 a barrel by 0323 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude added 38 cents, or 0.9%, to $43.43 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude oil rose to a session high of $46.56 earlier, the highest level traded since early March before Saudi Arabia initiated a price war with Russia, which sent oil prices crashing. Both oil benchmarks settled up about 2% on Monday after gaining about 5% last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent crude prices hit their highest levels since March as news of a third promising vaccine candidate spurred hopes of a quick recovery in oil demand, while US President-elect Joe Biden received the go-ahead to begin his presidential transition. Brent crude futures rose 34 cents, or 0.7%, to $46.40 a barrel by 0323 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude added 38 cents, or 0.9%, to $43.43 a barrel. Brent crude oil rose to a session high of $46.56 earlier, the highest level traded since early March before Saudi Arabia initiated a price war with Russia, which sent oil prices [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386035","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=386035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}