{"id":391595,"date":"2020-12-26T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391595"},"modified":"2020-12-26T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T04:28:17","slug":"oil-edges-higher-after-brexit-trade-deal-gains-capped-by-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-edges-higher-after-brexit-trade-deal-gains-capped-by-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil edges higher after Brexit trade deal, gains capped by pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, Alberta\/LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices inched higher on Thursday, helped by late-day buying in a low-volume session to close out the week. <\/p>\n<p>The market built gains overnight as Britain and the European Union reached a post-Brexit trade deal, reversed those gains, and then rebounded during the U.S. session to end modestly higher. <\/p>\n<p>U.S West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude settled up 11 cents to $48.23 a barrel, while Brent crude futures settled 9 cents higher at $51.29. Volumes were light on the last trading day before the Christmas holiday. <\/p>\n<p>For the week, U.S. crude fell 1.6% while Brent lost 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, Alberta\/LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices inched higher on Thursday, helped by late-day buying in a low-volume session to close out the week. The market built gains overnight as Britain and the European Union reached a post-Brexit trade deal, reversed those gains, and then rebounded during the U.S. session to end modestly higher. U.S West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude settled up 11 cents to $48.23 a barrel, while Brent crude futures settled 9 cents higher at $51.29. Volumes were light on the last trading day before the Christmas holiday. For the week, U.S. crude fell 1.6% while Brent lost 2%.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391595","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=391595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}