{"id":388676,"date":"2020-12-09T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=388676"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T06:17:03","slug":"oil-dips-as-covid-19-cases-lockdowns-outweigh-vaccination-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-dips-as-covid-19-cases-lockdowns-outweigh-vaccination-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil dips as Covid-19 cases, lockdowns outweigh vaccination news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, extending the previous session&#8217;s losses after the US state of California tightened its pandemic lockdown through Christmas and Covid-19 cases surged in the United States and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Brent crude fell 3 cents to $48.76 a barrel by 10:34 a.. EST (1534 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures lost 21 cents to $45.55. Both benchmarks retreated by about 1% on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Oil prices were briefly buoyed after the world&#8217;s first fully-tested Covid-19 vaccine shot was administered to a grandmother in Britain, but investors quickly returned their focus to ebbing fuel demand caused by the pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, extending the previous session&#8217;s losses after the US state of California tightened its pandemic lockdown through Christmas and Covid-19 cases surged in the United States and Europe. Brent crude fell 3 cents to $48.76 a barrel by 10:34 a.. EST (1534 GMT), while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures lost 21 cents to $45.55. Both benchmarks retreated by about 1% on Monday. Oil prices were briefly buoyed after the world&#8217;s first fully-tested Covid-19 vaccine shot was administered to a grandmother in Britain, but investors quickly returned their focus to ebbing fuel demand caused [&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-388676","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\/388676","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=388676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}