{"id":397580,"date":"2021-01-28T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397580"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:43:12","slug":"oil-slips-on-tightening-covid-19-curbs-especially-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-slips-on-tightening-covid-19-curbs-especially-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil slips on tightening COVID-19 curbs, especially in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices slid in early trade on Thursday on fresh worries about weakened fuel demand, after England clamped down on travel and China, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer, also sought to limit Lunar New Year trips to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 12 cents, or 0.1%, to $52.72 a barrel at 0228 GMT, erasing some of Wednesday&#8217;s gain.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures fell 16 cents, or 0.3%, to $55.65 a barrel, after losing 10 cents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Oil prices slid in early trade on Thursday on fresh worries about weakened fuel demand, after England clamped down on travel and China, the world&#8217;s second-largest oil consumer, also sought to limit Lunar New Year trips to stem a surge in COVID-19 cases. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 12 cents, or 0.1%, to $52.72 a barrel at 0228 GMT, erasing some of Wednesday&#8217;s gain. Brent crude futures fell 16 cents, or 0.3%, to $55.65 a barrel, after losing 10 cents on Wednesday.<\/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-397580","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\/397580","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=397580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}