{"id":390538,"date":"2020-12-21T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390538"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:52:21","slug":"oil-falls-below-48-with-virus-mutation-raising-lockdown-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-falls-below-48-with-virus-mutation-raising-lockdown-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil falls below $48 with virus mutation raising lockdown risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil fell below $48 a barrel in Asian trading &#8212; after posting a seventh weekly gain &#8212; on concern a mutation of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. could speed transmission of the virus and lead to more lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Futures in New York dropped 3% after closing at the highest in almost 10 months on Friday. More than 16 million Britons are now required to stay at home as a full lockdown came into force in London and the southeast of England, with some European countries limiting travel with the U.K. A stronger dollar also reduced the appeal of commodities that are priced in the currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil fell below $48 a barrel in Asian trading &#8212; after posting a seventh weekly gain &#8212; on concern a mutation of Covid-19 discovered in the U.K. could speed transmission of the virus and lead to more lockdowns. Futures in New York dropped 3% after closing at the highest in almost 10 months on Friday. More than 16 million Britons are now required to stay at home as a full lockdown came into force in London and the southeast of England, with some European countries limiting travel with the U.K. A stronger dollar also reduced the appeal of commodities that [&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-390538","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\/390538","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=390538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}