{"id":390616,"date":"2020-12-21T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390616"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:10:40","slug":"oil-prices-fall-amid-worries-over-new-coronavirus-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-prices-fall-amid-worries-over-new-coronavirus-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil prices fall amid worries over new coronavirus strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices slid in early trade on Monday as a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom raised concerns that tighter restrictions there and in other European countries could stall a recovery in the global economy and its need for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude dropped 97 cents, or 1.9 per cent, to $51.29 a barrel by 0103 GMT after rising 1.5 per cent and touching its highest since March last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Oil prices slid in early trade on Monday as a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom raised concerns that tighter restrictions there and in other European countries could stall a recovery in the global economy and its need for fuel. Brent crude dropped 97 cents, or 1.9 per cent, to $51.29 a barrel by 0103 GMT after rising 1.5 per cent and touching its highest since March last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-390616","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\/390616","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}