{"id":387149,"date":"2020-12-01T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387149"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T07:24:53","slug":"mideast-stocks-markets-track-oil-lower-ahead-of-opec-meeting-most-set-for-monthly-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mideast-stocks-markets-track-oil-lower-ahead-of-opec-meeting-most-set-for-monthly-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDEAST STOCKS-Markets track oil lower ahead of OPEC+ meeting; most set for monthly gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most major Gulf markets weakened on Monday, tracking lower oil prices ahead of a crucial meeting of producer group Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+), but they were set to finish the month higher on hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Financial markets worldwide have gained in most sessions over the past couple of weeks as U.S. drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc as well as Britain&#8217;s AstraZeneca NSE -0.31 % released positive trial data on the effectiveness of their vaccine candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Also, crude oil prices, a vital catalyst for the Gulf markets, fell on jitters ahead of a meeting of producer group OPEC+ to decide whether to extend large output cuts to balance global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most major Gulf markets weakened on Monday, tracking lower oil prices ahead of a crucial meeting of producer group Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC+), but they were set to finish the month higher on hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine. Financial markets worldwide have gained in most sessions over the past couple of weeks as U.S. drugmakers Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc as well as Britain&#8217;s AstraZeneca NSE -0.31 % released positive trial data on the effectiveness of their vaccine candidates. Also, crude oil prices, a vital catalyst for the Gulf markets, fell on jitters ahead of a meeting [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387149","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=387149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}