{"id":396766,"date":"2021-01-22T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396766"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:48:17","slug":"oil-drops-as-new-covid-cases-in-china-trigger-clampdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-drops-as-new-covid-cases-in-china-trigger-clampdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil drops as new COVID cases in China trigger clampdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil NSE 1.19 % prices fell in early trade on Friday, retreating further from 11-month highs hit last week, on worries new pandemic restrictions in China will curb fuel demand in the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped 47 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $52.66 a barrel at 0148 GMT, after slipping 18 cents on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell 45 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to $55.65 a barrel, erasing a 2 cent gain on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil NSE 1.19 % prices fell in early trade on Friday, retreating further from 11-month highs hit last week, on worries new pandemic restrictions in China will curb fuel demand in the world&#8217;s biggest oil importer. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures dropped 47 cents, or 0.9 per cent, to $52.66 a barrel at 0148 GMT, after slipping 18 cents on Thursday. Brent crude futures fell 45 cents, or 0.8 per cent, to $55.65 a barrel, erasing a 2 cent gain on Thursday.<\/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-396766","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\/396766","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=396766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}