{"id":403046,"date":"2021-03-04T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403046"},"modified":"2021-03-04T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:27:30","slug":"oil-rises-as-us-vaccine-progress-raises-demand-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-rises-as-us-vaccine-progress-raises-demand-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil rises as US vaccine progress raises demand expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Wednesday as signs of progress in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States, the world&#8217;s biggest consumer, raised demand expectations.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 15 cents, or 0.25%, to $59.90 a barrel by 0757 GMT, recovering from three days of losses.<\/p>\n<p>Brent crude futures rose 24 cents, or 0.38%, to $62.94 a barrel after four days of losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ongoing stimulus measures, as COVID-19 vaccinations speed up, have boosted sentiment,&#8221; ANZ analysts wrote in a note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil prices rose on Wednesday as signs of progress in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States, the world&#8217;s biggest consumer, raised demand expectations. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 15 cents, or 0.25%, to $59.90 a barrel by 0757 GMT, recovering from three days of losses. Brent crude futures rose 24 cents, or 0.38%, to $62.94 a barrel after four days of losses. &#8220;Ongoing stimulus measures, as COVID-19 vaccinations speed up, have boosted sentiment,&#8221; ANZ analysts wrote in a note.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403046","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\/403046","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=403046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}