{"id":392083,"date":"2020-12-29T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T04:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=392083"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T06:20:02","slug":"oil-rises-to-touch-52-after-trump-signs-aid-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-to-touch-52-after-trump-signs-aid-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises to touch $52 after Trump signs aid bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil NSE -1.57 % rose to hit $52 a barrel on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s signing of a coronavirus aid package and the start of a European vaccination campaign outweighed concern about weak near-term demand.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, whose presidency is set to end next month, had earlier threatened to block the $2.3 trillion aid and spending package. Europe, meanwhile, launched a mass vaccination drive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude was up 68 cents, or 1.3%, at $51.97 a barrel at 1020 GMT, after trading as high as $52.02, reversing an earlier decline. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude added 69 cents, or 1.4%, to $48.92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Oil NSE -1.57 % rose to hit $52 a barrel on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s signing of a coronavirus aid package and the start of a European vaccination campaign outweighed concern about weak near-term demand. Trump, whose presidency is set to end next month, had earlier threatened to block the $2.3 trillion aid and spending package. Europe, meanwhile, launched a mass vaccination drive on Sunday. Brent crude was up 68 cents, or 1.3%, at $51.97 a barrel at 1020 GMT, after trading as high as $52.02, reversing an earlier decline. U.S. West Texas [&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":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392083","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\/392083","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=392083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}