{"id":389289,"date":"2020-12-14T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=389289"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:55:27","slug":"oil-prices-rise-to-9-month-high-brent-crude-pushes-past-50-a-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-rise-to-9-month-high-brent-crude-pushes-past-50-a-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices rise to 9-month high, Brent crude pushes past $50 a barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose on Friday, extending a sharp rally overnight that saw Brent rise above $50 for the first time since March, as coronavirus vaccination rollouts kept hopes alive that demand for crude would build up next year.<\/p>\n<p>Brent was up 11 cents or 0.2% at $50.36 a barrel by 0427 GMT, after gaining nearly 3% on Thursday. U.S. oil was up 14 cents, or 0.3%, at $46.92 a barrel, having also risen almost 3% in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves prices set for a sixth consecutive week of gains as promising vaccine trials helped quell gloom over record increases in the number of new infections and deaths around the world in the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil rose on Friday, extending a sharp rally overnight that saw Brent rise above $50 for the first time since March, as coronavirus vaccination rollouts kept hopes alive that demand for crude would build up next year. Brent was up 11 cents or 0.2% at $50.36 a barrel by 0427 GMT, after gaining nearly 3% on Thursday. U.S. oil was up 14 cents, or 0.3%, at $46.92 a barrel, having also risen almost 3% in the previous session. That leaves prices set for a sixth consecutive week of gains as promising vaccine trials helped quell gloom over record increases in [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389289","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=389289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}