{"id":386106,"date":"2020-11-25T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386106"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:02:29","slug":"petrol-diesel-get-costlier-as-covid-vaccine-hopes-lift-crude-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-get-costlier-as-covid-vaccine-hopes-lift-crude-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel get costlier as Covid vaccine hopes lift crude prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fuel prices have started crawling up after holding steady for two months as international oil markets rebounded in anticipation of an early recovery in demand following news of a third successful Covid vaccine candidate.<br \/>\nInternational benchmark Brent on Tuesday hit $46.56 per barrel, the highest in eight months, before closing at $46.40. US benchmark WTI (West Texas Intermediate) too rose to $43.43 a barrel. These are the levels last seen before Saudi Arabia started the price war at the beginning of March.<br \/>\nCrude has been inching up since November and jumped above $40-mark on November 4. Since then, it has been rising steadily as news of vaccines developed by Pfizer, AstraZeneca-Oxford University and Moderna showing above 90% success rates buoyed the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Fuel prices have started crawling up after holding steady for two months as international oil markets rebounded in anticipation of an early recovery in demand following news of a third successful Covid vaccine candidate. International benchmark Brent on Tuesday hit $46.56 per barrel, the highest in eight months, before closing at $46.40. US benchmark WTI (West Texas Intermediate) too rose to $43.43 a barrel. These are the levels last seen before Saudi Arabia started the price war at the beginning of March. Crude has been inching up since November and jumped above $40-mark on November 4. Since then, [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386106","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=386106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}